Show I 1 distributed AMONG I 1 SUGAR BEET GROWERS on december 1 a second beet pay day will bring cheer to sugar beet farmers of the ogden district when will be distributed for ugar sugar beets harvested since november 1 by the amalgamated sugar company an additional sum of approximately benefit payments will be due soon after january 1 which will bring the total initial payment for ogden district beets to on the basis of an all expected government payment of per ton this amount which is paid in excise or processing taxes by the sugar company into a government fund and is returned in part to the grower brings the total initial payment to be received by the grower to per ton the com pan banys ys initial payment made di direct to the growers was on the basis of per ton whether ogden gr growers will receive further payments during the year depends largely on the average selling price of sugar for the entire period according to H A benning vice president t a and nd I 1 general manager of the amalgam amalgams abed sugar company while the rate of this years initial payment of plus an estimated per ton is somewhat less than the th e initial payment of 1938 the 1939 payment is ii based PY 0 n an estimated net sugar price for this years crop and an estimated sugar content of this years beets if the average sugar price for the year and the sugar content are more than the estimated amount then an additional payment will be made later in the year mr ng also points out that sugar beet g growers raising beets for the amalgamated gugar I 1 co including utah growers will probably receive the highest per acre income of any large producing area tor for the second consecutive year the yield of our growers he says will be approximately one third higher than the national average of all sugar beet producing sections |