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Show HEMNTON j SUGAR UPHELD James R. Beus. Chairman of Committee. Says Schedule Satisfactory I rt. Hcuj. chairman of the Utah s'; u larni Imreav'e sugar beet committee which last wrk obtained uti agre-nieiit n I! Ii the sasar 0 panles fixina the price of hets. toda) taaued h tiilrmen' in which lie an-' nounces that tn the opinion of the ntambar of the committer the agreement agree-ment ohuuned Is highly aatl'factorj and should settle the heet ijneatiun for all time to ooma M M - S I l I Ml I ills statement "CaaatdeenMa toinment has been heard of late regarding the contrart "JlMng from negeaJatlona of the v.m-.ous v.m-.ous sugar companies snd the officers' iOf ihe farm Bureau. Wa have' heard loth crlti- fsm und coinmendn-tlon coinmendn-tlon regarding ih- prici schedulef which have been arrtvod it. and it' seems an opportune lime to briefly express out views regarding th-, mat-, ter as a whole in tne first luace. It is the first lime in the hostorv or the Kami Uureaua' activities where they have been In a1 position to deal with exact racts concerning con-cerning certain coata of producing su-gar su-gar and working u ton of beets in ti e various sugar factories. Through tut-'courtesy tut-'courtesy of the sugar companies, expert ex-pert pnbiu accountants, employed bj th I'tah State I-aiin ;tnr i - w-n- permitted to go into ibelr recordj and obtain certain figures for the office r of the Farm Bureau and upon these figures were predUted t lie negotiation" v. Inch resulted in the contract and 'schedules of pr;oi-s referred to. Negotiations Nego-tiations between tin- officers of the sn-,gnr sn-,gnr comiianles end. the I'arm Kureau 'have be-i miivt ni:ie,-able throughou: and it Is the uniiual.ii' 1 o'iiihmii of the i officers of the I'lirni Bureau. aftei 'thoroughly Investigating all th- anglee involved in this important problem, thnt they have secured a contract winch eema to ue to be fair ami equitable to both produce! and inanu- ' fa cturer. lOVANC'l rAKEh '."e feel that a decided advance has1 been made In adopting the basic fea-l lures of this contract which tends to remove the element of speculation on the part of both farmer and sugar company, and We also believe that' with slight modifications from lime to' time the same principle will meet the! suuauon lor an times to come. e The I'tah stat'1 farm bureau of ft-1 rials and the L'tah-ldahu Sugar com-Puny com-Puny concluded Friday an agreement n the price basis of the 1921 u- fcl beet contracts which for the first time' in Utah will make provision for payment pay-ment on both the basis of the pries received by the manufacturers for the sugar and the sugar content of the bcet-s grown b the farmers. On the present price of sugar net to the refiner of $7.J0 per hundred i the farmer would receive 19. 0-1 a ton for beets as compared with the $12 minimum of last year. |