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Show Sugar Beet Program In County To Cover 1 94 1 Crop The sugar beet program in which Franklin county beet growers grow-ers have cooperated since 1937 will be extended to cover the 1941 crop, Edis I. Rawlings, member of the county agricultural conservation committee- in charge of sugar beets, said today. Rawlings said the 'county conservation con-servation office had received word that extension of the Sugar act of 1937 for another year his been approved ap-proved and provisions beet growers grow-ers have complied with in recent years will apply for 194K Meanwhile, Franklin county beet growers are harvesting their 1940 crop and the county office announces an-nounces that applications for 1940 sugar beet paymenls will be ready for ' signature soon after the factories fac-tories complete their runs. Total payments for the entire state on the 1940 crop will be about $2,000,-000. $2,000,-000. Payments are made at the rate of 60 cents per hundredweight of sugar, raw value, and depend upon the sugar content of the beets in each factory district. Idaho beet growers have received receiv-ed about $7,200,000 in beet benefit bene-fit payments during the time government gov-ernment sugar programs have been in effect, Rawlings, said. Payments last year equalled about 30 per cent of the total revenue to farmers far-mers from sugar beets. Totals include in-clude "defiency and abandonment" payments when crops are partly or wholly ruined by weather. Soil conservation con-servation payments of about 40 cents a ton in 1938 and 1937, under un-der the Soil Conservation and Domestic Do-mestic Allotment Act Of 1936, are not included, however, the committeeman com-mitteeman said. |