Show BEET AND TOMATO PRICES AGREED ON ONBY ONBY BY GROWER FACTORY Sugar beef prices for 1931 were ere settled set set- set settled IId Tuesday at a meeting of ot tho the Utah Sugar Beet Deet Gro Growers ers Cooperative e asso elation and representatives of ot the Utah Idaho Sugar company Maple Mapleton Mapleton Mapleton ton Sugar company Holly Sugar com pang Layton Sugar company and the o Sugar company Tho The meeting was wag held In the Hotel Utah with Ith J W Gillman president ot of the growers gro ers association presiding The contract agreed to by the manu manufacturers and the gro growers ers calls for Cor a 6 G per ton minimum price for Cor beets at the dump with Hh a clause In the contract providing ro for a 4 40 0 0 base sugar price it was wa announced by Mr Ir Gillman after the meeting The latter provision holds that It if the price of sugar falls below j 30 per hundredweight hundred during the tho months of ot August September or October 1931 the gro growers era will accept 5 GO per ton minimum price Mr in n said It If the price of or sugar Is at or abO above abOe e that during the period the grow grow- growers growers ers ere will get the 6 C per ton guarantee with the option of oC spreading it through the entire year Mr Ir Gillman salil ald that he felt that the farmers wet werf we practically assured of ofa ofa ofa a t bG per ton price under the guarantee a as he ho expected sugar to bo be above aboe abo e the tho base figure figureA A BO 0 t 0 60 0 sliding gliding scale as In effect at the present time was as also placed In the then new n contract which is for tor one year only The sliding scale provides for forthe forthe the farmers share in the event that tb sugar su- su sugu su-gir su gu gar reaches higher prices Dates Dats of oC l payments for beets were ere made November 20 O and December 15 Instead of ember 15 and December 15 as in the tho past p Pulp prices were ere left lert the same as at present ranging between CO 60 cents and nd 75 cents per ton at the factory Mr Ir Gillman was named by the grow grow- growers growers growers ers to meet with the tho manufacturers and see that the pro provisions of the contract are complied compiled with Ith I can cin see no reason why hy there should not be a normal acreage of beets In Utah this year ear since beets are a cash crop and the prices ha have e been Gillman Giliman fixed said s Mr ormal Normal acreage of sugar beets Is about 45 or 50 acres Representatives 8 of oC Franklin county Idaho beet growers erS and members ot of the Utah gro growers ers organization representing representing representing about acres attended the meeting Monday afternoon an agreement was as reached between the growers ers and the Gunnison Sugar company pro providing for Cor 6 per ton minimum price for Cor beets with a clause a agreeing to a price of 6 50 per ton It if the acreage in Sanpete and Sevier counties reaches TOMATOES Representatives es of the Utah Can Can- Canners Canners Can ners ners association and the State and e W Wc-ber Wc gi- gi giber ber county Canning Crops association got together quickly on the price to be paid for tomatoes this year at a meet meetIng meeting meetIng Ing In the office of oC the canning association tion In Ogden yesterday hy afternoon Af- Af After After Af After ter reaching in n agreement that tomatoes should be graded according to the United States standard st It was announced that growers gro ers would be paid 13 a ton for forNo forNo zo No 1 grade and 6 6 a ton foro for No o o 2 grade The t two 0 grades are defined as follows follos s U S So o 0 1 shall consist of tomatoes I which are firm ripe well ell colored well ell formed free from molds and decay and from damage caused by gro growth groth th cracks worm orm holes boles freezing mechanical Injury mechanical or other means j I IU jU U S No 2 shall consist of oC tomatoes which do not meet the requirements of oC the foregoing grade but which are ripe riper I and fairly well ell colored and which are free Cree from serious damage from Crom any I cause Last year gro growers ers were paid 11 50 a ton fiat flat rate for tomatoes In bulk and they asked the same price this year It Is said b by experts that under the prices agreed to be paid by the can canners canners canners ners this year those growers who raise high class tomatoes tom and are careful with the picking will realize a higher price for Cor their product than they did before The same committees will meet Sat Sat- Saturday Saturday Sat to fix a price on peas |