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Show FARM BUREAU DISAPPROVES ADDED CLAUSE Farmers of District Advised Not to Accept Terms Of New Beet Contract Prospective sugar beet growers of the Springville-Mapleton district hiive met with a disappointment which nmy preclude many farmers of this district from growing sugar beets during the coming season, according ac-cording to Selvoy J. Koyer, president presi-dent of the Springville Farm bureau local. Mr. Boyer states that without conferring with the sugar beet com-mitree com-mitree or any officers of the farm bureau the Springville-Mapleton Sugar company has taken the liberty liber-ty to add an arbitrary clause lu tiie contract which reads as follows: "If beets delivered under this contract con-tract shall by November 1, 1027, show an average sugar content by factories' cosset te test as provided for this contract of per cent or more, then the initial payment shall be increased to $7.00 per ton of beets which shall be paid on November 15, 1027, and on subsequent paydays j for all beets previously delivered." This clause calls for one-half per cent more sugar content than the original contract calls for, Mr. Boyer states, and believes that it is of sufficient importance to the farmers of the district that they should not accept of its terms. "The farm bureau had a satisfactory satis-factory contract with the sugar company which calls for a $7.00 payment on a 14 per cent sugar content, con-tent, and the farmers of the district regard this added clause, which is printed over the face of the original contract in red ink, as an uncalled for, an arbitrary act on the part oJ the sugar ' company," declared Mr. Boyer in discussing the matter here Tuesday. "We are advising the beetgrowers of the district to withhold from signing this -contract' until- the matter mat-ter van be gone into by the projier committee form the farm bureau," he continued. Mr. Koyer also explained that the farmers everywhere take exception to the expression "bonus" as used by the sugar companies. "The sugar companies are paying the farmers no bonus whatsoever," he explained. "If I owe a business house an obligation for merchandise merchan-dise I purchase on time, I do not consider that I am paying that firm a bonus when I pay that obligation. We farmers wonder what right the sugar companies have to refer to their deferred payments as bonuses'." |