Show AGREEMENT REACHED ON BEET CONTRACT Farm Jarm Bureau R Representatives arid and Sugar Companies Companies Com Corn End Ene Long Fight on 19 1922 Schedule q J Both Sides Concede Point j I Five weeks of stubborn fighting over the price to be paid sugar beet growers growers grow grow- row row- ers in Utah this year terminated at atthe atthe atthe the Hotel Utah last lust night when Ephraim Ephraim Eph- Eph raim ralin Bergeson president of at the Utah State Farm arm bureau and chairman n Qt that organisation's organisations S l sugar r beet and representatives of t te e Utah-Idaho Utah and I f Amalgamated Sugar cor companies s signed a compromise q agree agreement ree- ree ee- ee ment merit on a 53 46 basis This f 1 ure will wm be written into the beet contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts to be submitted to the farmers and m means ans that the tho money value of ot the sugar sugar produced will be divided hvide be between between between be- be tween the grower and the refiner at this ratio The agreement will practically the sugar s j beet acre acreage acreage arcs acre age of ot the state and ass assures res the farmers farm farm- ers a fair return falz-return return for their tr n. n farm bureau officials declare Sugar company officials likewise are satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied tied with the outcome of the Although only two refining companies companies com corn were represented at the conference con can r ference farm bureau officials believe t at th the other sugar ugar companies in Utah wIn wIll th the lead established at last 1st nights night's me meeting e Following the S sos ses- S- S the farm committee I worked out the sliding sc scale le to snow show tonnage return to Growers growers based on an percentage of sugar content and market market market mar mar- ket price p of or sigar The minimums minimums- ms- ms of 5 per ton and 14 If per cent sugar content con content content con con- tent were agreed upon some time ago and the only point in dispute wa was p percentage percentage per per- r- r division ton the return Originally I ally the farmers ask asked a 4 52 4 52 while the su sugar qt companies I held for tor a 55 45 split spilt with themselves e ves I on the long end Successive meetings beat this figure down to a a. 53 47 deadlock deadlock dead dead- lock tock that held for several days until bot both sides agreed to split the difference lat night As Aa wo worked QU gu by tl the e farm tarm bureau 1 experts the growers Vers may mey e expect pec the I following return on the their r ac according according ac- ac cording to its quality and antI the condition condi cendt- tion of the sugar market et The Tho left hand col column mn represents the toe percent sugar In tn beets beet fro Tro figures the e represent the wholesale price of sugar pet per one hundred pounds and the other fh figures nes show the dollars and nd cents re return return return re- re turn t to the tho grow grower r. r 5 0 6 9 go sp Ii 14 0 52 5 8 7 I 14 00 50 5 64 94 4 I 15 oo oO r 68 71 22 I 4 01 oi 54 16 5 0 55 66 82 8 U 9 3 S. S 64 4 9 91 1 17 5 77 95 1016 1 54 I l 5 4 7 70 89 1032 1090 I |