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Show MANY GROWERS -WANT JO SIGN Although the weather is settling set-tling and farm land will soon be at its best stage for planting beets, the unsettled condition between be-tween growers and manufacturers manufactur-ers still maintains. The situation remains deadlocked. dead-locked. Utah county farmers, through their board, have refused the Utah Idaho Sugar company to accept the contract offered by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the company refuses to grant the contract asked by the growers. grow-ers. There is apparently a growing grow-ing desire on the part of growers grow-ers to accept the contract as it is, rather than not grow beets This is reflected in the vote at a meeting of Pleasant Grove, Lin-don Lin-don and Orem farmers who voted four to one to grow beets in a meeting at Lindon last week. Previously Pre-viously they had voted to stay with the board in "holding out." Today Utah county is the only one still holding out and a number of persons see a danger that the crop which annually takes up from 8,000 to 15,000 acres of land, will be switched .to other crops, with inevitable bad results to markets and otherwise. However, the growers are mostly most-ly bound up by growers' contracts, con-tracts, through which they can (Continued On Page Four) MANY GROWERS WANTTO SIGN I Continued from Page One) be penalized if the board sees fit. No indication that the board will sue, if the growers violate this contract, has been given as yet. Split In Board It is also known that there is a split among the board. At least two members would like to tell the farmers to "grow beets," but three of the board still remain firm in their original stand. Here are the views of a north-end north-end farmer, brought to the Herald Her-ald office following, the meeting at Lindon: "The growing of sugar beets and the manufacture of sugar has been one of the basic industries of this county for the past 4C years. The money procurable helps the laborer and places the farmer in a very advantageous position in the fall of the year He not only is able to meet his current expenses, interest, taxes labor bills, winter clothing for the family, etc., but can store his other crops if prices aren't right, marketing them at his own discretion. dis-cretion. ' over-water the stock at the ex- pense of all concerned. Their unwarranted un-warranted building program was also uneconomical. After 30 years the company was apparently in many respects worse off than it was in its infancy. Money had to be borrowed, new management with up-to-date methods employed, employ-ed, in order to save the structure. "It now seems to be flourishing once more and the farmer has done his part in the grand recovery re-covery by growing very low priced beets. "The representatives of the Utah Central Sugar Beet Growers association put up a dogged but losing fight for a 50-50 contract in our state meeting. All the other districts of the state accepted ac-cepted a contract that is very near and in some respects better than we asked. We find ourselves the lone holdouts: if we persist we will no doubt injure the company com-pany to some extent while hundreds hun-dreds of farmers will really suffer, the business of the county will receive a jolt and tax revenues heretofore received in the county treasury from the sugar people will be placed on top of the burden bur-den we already have. "The sensible thing to do is first, preserve our association by turning the growers loose from their association contract for one more year. The outlook is splendid splen-did for maximum tonnage; government gov-ernment aid is promised and with advanced prices from the company this should be a banner year for all concerned in the industry." "He has time now for preparation prepara-tion of ground for another season sea-son and other benefits that could be mentioned. Then again, imagine im-agine the predicament of the average av-erage farmer of the county with seven to 14 thousand additional acres (now planted to beets) producing pro-ducing crops that are already in the surplus margin! If we had the shipping markets as we did several sev-eral years ago, the setup would be far different. Then again, we have several thousand acres of low lands with the mineral content con-tent available conducive to maximum maxi-mum tonnage of beets that will not pay out in any other crop. "There is an old saying, 'the wheelbarrow taught the Irishman to walk on his hind legs.' The culture of sugar beets really taught the average Utah farmer how to farm. This crop also has a fixed place in the rotation program pro-gram of most of our farms. Millions Mil-lions of dollars of benefits have been received in this county since the erection of the Lehi mill some 40 years ago. - "The writer is willing to admit that possibly the sugar company kept more than Its just share of the profits derived in the early inception in-ception of the industry and he does not agree with high company officials when they claim that $1C and $12 a ton paid for beets ruined ruin-ed the company during and right after the war. "The sugar people should never have permitted a few would-be rhillionaires within their ranks to |