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Show JIGffilEIII Oil deei ami is up Sugar Company and Growers Decide on Amount to Be Paid Utah and Idaho beet sugar (rowers will bo paid for sugar beets, grown this year In accordance with tha amount realized by tha beet augar manufacture manufac-ture ra for augar and tha sugar contents con-tents of the beets grown. This agreement waa reached yesterday yester-day after a week of conferences between be-tween representatives of the Utah state farm bureau and the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. It means that tha farmers will receive $9.04 per ton for beets grown In 1921 should sugar be selling at the preaent price of 17. to per 100-pound bags, with a minimum of $5.50 per ton baaed on a price of It: per bag for tha manufactured sugar. The minimum figure of $5.50 per ton will be paid the farmers aa In pre-vloua pre-vloua years on November IS and December De-cember 16 for deliveries made during the prevloua month. The price acale will start at .thia -figure 'and. .for- tha balance, if any, the amount to be paid will depend on the price of augar for the year October. 1921, to Oqtobor, 1922, payments to be made February 1, June 1 and October 1, lilt. SATISFACTION EXPRESSED. D. D. McKay,' president of tha Utah state farm bureau, and offlciala of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company last night expressed satisfaction with the price agreement reached. If the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company and minor augar manufacturing concerns accept- simitar agreements, the price to be paid for sugar beets will affect about 15.000 farmers, who last year grew 111,700 acres of beats. Under the new agreement farmers will be able to buy the best pulp for beet -(rowing at SO cents per ton Instead In-stead of $1.25 per ton, the prevailing price last year. Several minor details remain to be adjusted before the con-tracta con-tracta are ready for final acceptance, but committee will handle these. PAYMENTS BY COMPANY. Under the drafted agreement beet augar farmers will be compelled to wait much longer than in oast veara for their final paymenrs. In the contrsct provisions offered by the sugsr company It la stipulated that the "first and second subsequent settlements. set-tlements. February 1, 122, and June 1. 1922. will be 80 per cent of tho full balance due on each date on that proportion pro-portion of all beets received from each grower aa the total sugar sold to that date beara to the total sugar produced." pro-duced." Th price agreement reached yesterday yester-day starts with sugar selling at fa per sack for beets with a sugar content of from 14 per cent to 18 per cent, and carries the prices for beets progressively progress-ively up to the point where sugsr might sell at 815 per aack, at which point the farmer getting a 18 per cent sugsr would receive $17.22 per ton for his beets. 11.57 TONS PER ACRE. Lsst year the average sugar content of beet received by the Utah-Idaho company was 18.02 per cent. The yield per acra In tho state was 11.87 tons per acre. Th sugar company was represented In the negotiations by W. H. Wattia. managing director: Stephen H. Love, sales manager and member of the executive committee: Merrill Ntbley, aaaistant general manager, and Mark Austin, general agricultural superintendent. superin-tendent. The sugar beet subcommittee of the state farm bureau was composed 'of J. R. Beus, chairman: Ephraim Rere-eann. Jnsenh F. Skinner David N Beal and John K. Burton, BEET PRICE SCALE. The following table shows In detail the price agreement reached. 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