The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-02-05

That nine dollars a ton, with fiji
ty-fifty split on all increase in prof
prices, as agreed upon at the ogden
conference is fair; that the absolute
amount of sugar contained in beets
is one thing and the average amount
which the sugar companies can ex-
tract is another; that the present
regulations, while not ideal, are con-
ceived with an idea. which is prac-
tically attained, of securing justice to
all: that the Twin Falls county farm
bureau would help see regulations are
carried out; that between four new
beet cultivating inventions and an in
flux of workmen being arranged for
from the border enough labor will be
brought in to cultivate the fields, and
that as a good profit, on fair ar
rangement. has been secured 1t is the
patriotic duty of farmers near sugar
factories to raise as many sugar beets
as may be conducive to good farming
methods. constituted the substance Of
the talks made Friday night by J. "
Jones and DR. j. A. Brock at the
rooms of the Twin Falls Commercial
club A short talk by Sheriff Frank
M. Kendall. promising continued law
enforcement closed the meeting.
The meeting was presided over by
County Agent Donald Mclean, who
after short talk introduced j. w.
Jones, sugar expert of the United
States department of agriculture
Mr.. Jones declared that anticipat-
ing the dangers of the situation, the
nf no arf,, <Nr
he was one, had visited the several
sugar sections, in the beet country.
in the cane country and in the coun-
try devoted to the production of ma
pie sugar and had carefully canvass
ed the situation, in view of condi-
tions then existing and realizing that
sugar production had been vital in the
Napoleonic wars and before. as we'll
as in the conflicts since that time.
Enough sugar had been produced
in the world last year to supply its
needs. but conditions had been such
that very great part of the supply
had not been available. Only twenty
six per cent of the sugar used in the
United States had been produced
within its borders. The total value
of the crop of all the states west of
the Mississippi river, except Iowa.
constituting two thirds of the SUPER
fetal area of the United States, would
barely equal the value of the sugar
needed to make up our deficiency.
Most of the sugar needed came from
our insular possessions and from
Cuba, over which last country we ex-
ercise no control. The situation be-
came grave by reason of the diff
Guilty involved in getting ships in
which to carry sugar after war broke
out, when so many were needed for
troops and Supplies. In Europe, Ger
many, Russia, France, Belgium and
Italy were sugar producing countries.
England got sixty-eight per cent of
her sugar from Germany. When the
Teuton armies swept over Belgium
they captured all the great sugar fac
tories of that country and while they
destroyed the cathedrals. they pre-
served the factories and used them to
make sugar for themselves The SUI
gar producing fields of France be-
came the battlefields of Europe and
the production of Italy became cur
tailed by war. The supply from Rus
STA to western Europe was likewise
cut off Java has a surplus of a mil
lion tons of sugar, but cannot get it
shipped to market because of the need
of ships for transports. We had
largely depended on Germany for
seed, but experiments showed that
American grown seed resulted in the
production of more sugar. In the
meantime necessity spurred the in
ventors of machinery for the clean
ing and harvesting of beets, some of
whom had worked unsuccessfully for
years, until now no less than four
machines are invented which do good
work. In short the industry is be-
coming Americanized. He strongly
urged the use of the beet tops for silos.
and if not in silage, then as a fer
tilizer
With this ground work, he urged
the planting of at least 10000 acres
OF sugar beets around the factory.
He called attention to the fact that
under present arrangements sugar
was not selling for eight dollars at
the factories, as some had erroneous
/ ly and maliciously stated, but at
1910 IL at seaboard He showed how
the beet sugar men had offered their
factories to the government, to run
with or without profit, and how Hoov-
er had declared that the government
had enough industries to operate all
ready. He spoke at length of the