The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-11-13
FARMERS WHO GROW
BETS ASK SUPPORT
Urge Exclusive Use OF Montana Sugar
AS Aid To Agricultural And
General Prosperity

A strong appeal to the people of Mon-
tana, as well as of %neighbor states to
the east, to use Montana-made sugar
exclusively In order that the grower
may receive a higher price for his beets
and that money now going out of the
state may be kept in home circulation,
has been issued by the beet-growing
farmers in connection with the new crop
Of sugar-the largest, incidentally, in
the states history-which is now being
manufactured. The text of the appeal,
which is in the form of an open letter
signed by the executive committee Of
the Montana division of the Mountain
States Beet Growers Marketing assoc
citation, T. S. Barrett, secretary, and
addressed to the public, is as follows:
The farmers growing sugar beets
have a direct interest in the sugar used
in Montana and ~neighboring states to
the east.
The more beet sugar consumed in
this territory the higher is the Farm
SI , pIOCtcuo IOl IIS sugar Dccl CIDD.
Having negotiated with The Great
Western Sugar Company a contract
fixing payment to the farmer accord
ing to the net price realized for the
sugar, the Montana Division of the
Mountain States Beet Growers Mark
citing Association desires to cooperate
with the Company to the end that the
exclusion of cane sugar by 100 per
cent use of beet sugar in this favorable
sales area will Increase the farmers
receipts for his work. And it is only
reasonable to expect that the people
Of Montana as well as Of neighboring
agricultural States will thus help their
own fellow-farmers. Moreover, the
acreage in sugar beets does not COM
pete with grain crops and thus tends
to improve prices for other farm pro-
duets.
A new crop of sugar beets is being
refined in the Billings sugar factory.
Some 80,000,000 pounds or more will be
produced, sugar of as high a standard
of purity and cleanliness as the consul
mer can obtain. This production is
nearly twice as large as Montana's
annual sugar consumption. The sale
in Montana of a single bag of outside
sugars, therefore is inexcusable.
For Montana to import, for example, |
100000 bags of sugar produced else
where means that nearly a million dol
lars leaves the State. If 100000 bags
of foreign" sugar were displaced by
M~ontana-made sugar, it would mean an
additional $4,000 paid annually to the
beet ~raisers. And the entire State
would be better off for retaining in
circulation at home the moneys other
wise SEM away for these imported (
sugars.
We appeal to the people of Montana
to support their home sugar industry.
To the jobbing and retail trade espec-
tally we direct attention to this impor-
crop in the Yellowstone Valley
md the possibility of further sugar de-
rel0pment in the State. In recent
years of agricultural depression the
sugar beet crop was the salvation Of
thousands of irrigated farmers. The
sugar trade of Montana, jobhers and
'etailers, are equally interested with
he farmers and with the beet raising
communities in aiding our home indus
ry by stocking only Great Western
'eet sugar.
To the farmers and other consumers
# North Dakota, South Dakota, and I
Minnesota, where the balance of our s
Iontana sugars are distributed, we (
espeak the consideration due friendly s
eighbors. s
Buy the sugar grown by American s
armers, on the western irrigated lands {
f your neighbors, and manufactured :
/ the highest sugar quality obtainable {
Y American workers in a modern, 5
lodel factory. z