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Show The Beet Season of '98. w The season for beet planting can now iMktcOoo fairly opened. Farmers ?arVW "Ting their ground, nnd quite a ijiuf Vf acres will be put 111 between j?o!?5& April lwhilejdaringpiilfa1 very yconsiderablo acreage will be planter. The siigar company has issued its contracts, con-tracts, lYtid they aro now ready for tho farmer's signature. It is tho intention of tho factory to provide for at least 3,500 acres. Tho farmers are given their option of two styles of contract either tho ihit price or eliding scale. Under tho former the company agrees to pay ft per ton !U,r all beets delivered on board the cars it any station on tho line of the Pecos Valley railway, haying not less than 12 iper ce..t sugar to the weight of a beet ijind purity co-oiiicient of 80. Should any of the beets tail below the standa.'d tho company leservcs tho ligut to tako ikIio low grade heeis at the following toule of pi ices: For all beets containing IWMcfea than 11 percent of sugar and 75 Jmrily, $4 per ton of 2,000 pounds'; for Mi beets continuing not less that 10 per but of sugar and 70 purity, $2.50 per .'on. Foi beets having lesa that a purity :o-ofilcient of SO per cent a deduction of !io cents lor each two degrees below 80 iior cent will bo made. Should any of (She beets delivered be subject to a tare jLt over 15 per cent the company will ItUduct an amount equal to tho sum of iifty cents per ton or hiich excess of tare. Tho company agrees to pay the .freight on all tare up to and including 15 per (cent nt tho late of 50 cents per ton. In the sliding scale contract the com- jpany ugiees to pay fl per ton for beets ontaiuitig 14 per cent of hugar to the tweight of the bee't, and an additional 25 fronts l)er t011 tr cncu a,,d "very per ?ent of sugar above 14 per cent up to fund including 17 per cent, us determined Xy tl)Utesl oteaeh load of beets delivered. a reduction of 25 cents per ton will be .made for each and every per cent of augur below 14 down to 12 percent. Tho company leseives the light to reject any and a'l beets continuing lets than 12 percent of sugar with a purity co-ollicieut co-ollicieut of 80, The stipulations regard tug Uro.are the Biune a iu the flat prico contract. - ''t,V ' . ., K n 1 nm,. mi I, ... 1 ,M , t H In its instructions to tlie farmers, tho H factory suggests that they plant as early WM aa possible. It says that "to raise a 2fl large tonnage of bsets of good quality it H io reeolutely necessary to have a full H stand, theretoro you should plow deeply WM and prepare your foil well. You cannot S plant too much seed, Avoid irrigating M during hot sun; irrigate in tho evening nnd during tho night. Do not permit; weeds to grow among the beets." H Now that tho contracto hnvo been H issued, there will bo no cessation of M work, but every effort made for a sue- M ccesful growing eeneon, with its attend- H ant result a successful campaign. H The sugar beet season ol '08 in tbo Po- H coa Valley is on Pecos Valley Argus. M |