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Show Boys Help Farmers Thin Sugar Beets H Nearly fifty boys departed this 1 morning for beet fields near Morgan, H lhd as the result, tho slate of appll- H cants at the juvenile court has been H materially reduced. H The boys will be paid $13 per acre H for thinning beets, It is said they aver- H age around half an acre a day. H Because of the shortage of labor In H Morgan county, high wages are being H paid. .The Amalgamated Sugar com- pany is also said to be. seeking boys tor this H , Until this season, there was novcr i 43 great a sugar beet acreage as at present in Morgan, and because of this 1 tact, beet growers are experiencing 1 difficulty in procuring adequate help H lor the thinning of the bceta. |