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Show ments were made alt the rate of 60 cents per 100 pounds, raw value, of commercial recoverable sugar. In addition to this payment of 60 cents per 100 pounds of sugar, conditional payments were also made were drouth, torm, frost, disease or insects had reduced the yield below 80 per cent of normal crop no matter how low the yield In the case of abandment, pay- ments were made on a third of the normal yield on the aban- j doned acreage. ( Proctically the same provisions will be in force under the 1941 s program with the exception that growers to earn payment will j lotment this year, Mr. Lee said. 1 Beet Growers Receive AAA Payments Utah beet growers have received recei-ved $1,049,783,20 of the estimated $1,076,000 for compliance in the 1940 sugar program, Orvtile L. Le of Paradise, member of the state AAA committee, announced announ-ced today. Among the requirements to earn payments under the 1948 program were the carrying out of an acre of soil conservation for each acre of beets seeded, the paying of fair and reasonable wages and in the case of a processor pro-cessor who also grew beets, the payment of fair and prices for sugar beets. Applications for payment have been received from 6.370 growers, or 97.3 per cent of the total of 6.SS8 estimated applicants. Payments Pay-ments are 97.6 per cent complete, Mr. Lee said. Sugar beet payments under the sugar beet program have averaged averag-ed $164.S0 per applicant. This is an addition to the amount he received from the processor in payment for his sugar beets. Payments were, made to beet growers, who complied with the provisions of the program from an excise tax of 50 cents per 100 pounds raw value, on all domestic do-mestic and foreign sugar con sumed hi the United States. Pay- |