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Show ffl'mmm VOTE SUNK SCIE Schedule to be Based on Seaboard Sea-board Price of Refined Sugar DENVER, Jan. 27. Beet sugar growers, members of the National Sugar Beet Growers' association, in convention here, today voted to de-maud de-maud more money for their product. A sliding scale, based on tho seaboard price of refined sugar, was adopted. The association voted to demand contracts calling for prices ranging from .$12 to $21 a ton. based on a minimum min-imum of nine cents a pound for s'igar. Each advance of one cent in sugar prices would bring $1.50 additional per ton to the growers. Refiners have offered a flat contract of $12 a ton, which growers rejected. Each state organization, however, was left free to accept a compromise with refiners from the national organization's schedule. sched-ule. Wages of farm labor in caring for the beet crop will bo advanced this summer, the convention agreeing to a 15 per cent increase. This was said to mean an increased cost of $1 an acre for cultivation. A five por cent Increase in wages for labor In linn-ning linn-ning and ten per cent in pulling and lopping was adopted. A proposal for SI a ton above the average yield of ton tons tu the acre was rejected. A tax of one per cent per ton to finance fi-nance the National Beet Growers' organization or-ganization was unanimously adopted at ihe closing session tonight- This is expected to yield $C5.000 annually. The official designation of the association asso-ciation will hereafter be the United States Beet Growers' Federation. Directors Di-rectors for the coming year are Fred Cunimings, Colorado; A. F. Rund-quist, Rund-quist, Utah and Idaho; James Clem-mens, Clem-mens, Wisconsin; George Harms, Nebraska, Ne-braska, -.rid J. C. Kcteham, Michigan. |