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The sugar beet crop is esti-1
mated to run 17 tons to the .
acre, the third highest yield
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since 1906 in the Billings area, ·
reports Ralph W. Hettinger, .
manager of Great Western
Sugar Co.
The 36 beet receiving stations in this area report about 65 per cent of the harvest
com-pleted. Factory slicing is
run-ning about 4,400 tons per day, Hettinger said.
Highest yield on record is 19.12 tons per acre in 1963, and
last year's crop yielded 17.91
tons per acre, he said.
Final payment for l!tst year's
crop to be mailed Tuesday is
the second highest price per ton
received for, beets, amounting
ttrrdm · ana raam·n,'l'!1ore~- g\ e French position on Britain's]· fu ~plication to join the !uro~an.
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