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Show DECIDE ON NEW BEET CONTRACT1 Farm Bureau and Utah Idaho Sugar Officials Come to Agreement Agreement on tho sugar beet price haslx for 192 1 contracts was reached I by officials of the I'Uli State Farm ! Bureau and the I 'tah-Idaho Sugar company at Suit Lake yesterday. The contract marks th. flrl of its sort In ItJtah, and makeH provision! for payment pay-ment on the basis of the price receled hy the manufacturers for their sugar and on the sugar content of the beets grown by the farmers u I I lv OF I MCI l 1 -The negotiations, preliminary to tho agreement extended over a week before be-fore details of the ontraet were finally final-ly arranged satisfactorily. Al present prices, netting the refiner JT ,90 per hundred pound bag, tho ' rarmers would receive 9.04 a ton fori I their beets, as compared with the $12 1 per ton for their beets last year. D. O. McKay, president of the 1 tab St.ite hureau. declared himself satisfied with the contractu laat night. Similar expressions were given by t tah-Idaho ofticinls. STAR! s r s.v The price BOaled is started basing j the price of sugar at Jj per big. At ithis price tho farmers will receive I $6.50 per Ion for their beets This' 'minimum figure of $5.50 per ton v. ill !ne paid to tne farmers ns in previous years on November 15 and December 16 for deliveries of the previous month. The balance, if any, of the amount to bo paid for the beets, do- i pending on tue price of mik.it for th.-year th.-year October, to October, 1922.! will be paid February i, .lun l and 'ctober 1, 1922. In addition the farmers will be aide; to buy their beet pulp at 80 cents peri Hon Instead of $1.26, which they paid! last year, t tther details of the contract, con-tract, embracing a number of features, remain to be settled by committees of i the company and of the farmers, and definite ;in.l i mat acceptance of th entire en-tire contract will he dependent upon! an acceptable determination of the points yet to be decided. It is anticipated hy both thi farmers farm-ers and the manufacturers that these other questions will be mutualf agreed upon without difficulty. I FEATURE, The basing of the price to be paid' for beets on the average price of sugar for the year is a feature new to Utah i beet contracts and one that necessitates necessi-tates the postponement of final pay- ment to the farmers weii beyond the 'period of past years. I In the contract provisions offered by the sugar company it is utlplatcd that I the "tint and second subsequent settlements. set-tlements. February 1, 192 J, and June' II, 19152, will he 8u per cent of the full I balance due on each date on that pro-I portion of all beets received from each 'grower as tho total sugar sold to that I date bears to the total sugar pro-Iduced." pro-Iduced." The price agreement reached yestcr-iday yestcr-iday starts with sugar silling at $5 per Rack for beets with a sugar content of from i per cent to 18 per cent, and i carries the prices for beets progressive-ly progressive-ly up to the point where sugir niljjht I sell at $15 per sack, at which point :the farmer getting a 16 per cent con-,tent con-,tent would receive $17.22 per ton for I his beets. Wl K USE si (. UR CON1 ENT. I Last year tho average sugar content con-tent of beets received by the I'tah- i Idaho company was 16.02 per cent.; i'lhe yield per acre in the slate was! ; 1 1 ' 57 tons per acre. The sugar company was represented! in the negotiations by W. n Waltls, j I"1 wiw"i ui.iiiiibiMg nirecior. r-iepnen II Love, sab s manager and member of ,the executive committee; Merrill Nib-jley, Nib-jley, assistant general manager, and I Mark Austin, general agricultural su- Iperihtendent. The sugar beet subcommittee subcom-mittee of tho state farm bureau was composed of J. R. Beus. chairman, Kphralm Bergeaon, Joseph F. Skinner, David N. Heal and John E. Murton. I PRU I s UjE. The following table shows In detail the price agreement reaehed yesterday. The quotations In dollars are the prices at I which sugar may sell, the percentage j columns Indicate the supar content and the figures set opposite the perjentaj;c eolumns and below the sugar prices show UlS net price per ton of beets the farm-SfS farm-SfS mill receive, based on buh sugar I content and the prica the manufacturers r olve for su par : pet sunar hi beets $5.00 $5.50 $6.00 $0.00 $7. 00 $7.50 14.0. C.50 5.50 5.50 5. SO 6.50 7. CO 14.6. 5.50 6.50 5.60 6.025 6 75 7.47 I 16.0. 6.60 5.6u 5.50 6.54 7.17 7.75 1 115.5. 6.50 6 5k 5 75 6 71 7 X.07 I 16.0. 6.50 6.50 6.00 7.00 7. Mi 8.40 16.6. 5.60 6.50 6.25 7 28 8.10 8.72 1 : 17.0. 6.60 6.65 6.50 7.57 8.4u 9 05 117.6. 5.50 5.S7 6 75 7.85 8.71 9.37 j 1S.0. 6 60 6.10 7,00 S.13 9.02 9.70 $8.00 $8.50 $9 00 $9 50 $10.00 14 0 7.90 8.40 8.SS 9 3S D.S7 14.6 8.20 8.71 9 22 y.73 10.25 15.0 8.60 9 02 9 54 10.08 10. C2 16.5 8.85 9.39 9.94 10.49 11.05 16.0 9.20 9.75 10.33 10.90 1J 4S 10.5 9 65 10 13 10 72 11.32 11 92 17.0 9.90 10.51 11.13 11.76 12.37 17.6 10.25 10.88 11.62 12.16 12 SI 11.0 10 60 1 1 1 1 92 12 it $10.60 $11.00 $11.50 $12.00 12.50! 14 0 J0 36 10.85 11.35 11.S4 12 34 14.6 10.83 11.35 11.87 12 38 12.90 15 0 11.16 11.68 12 21 12.74 13 37 15.6 11.00 12.15 12.71 13.26 13.81 I'l.0 12.06 12.63 13 20 13.77 14.35 16.5 12.52 13.12 13.72 14 32 14.91 17 0... 12. 9S 13.60 14 22 14 84 15.46 17 6 13.45 14.09 14.73 10 37 16.01 18.0 13 91 14.67 16.23 15.90 16.56 $18.00 $13.60 $14 00 $14 60 $16.00 14 0 13 83 13.33 13.82 14.31 14 SO 14 6 13 42 13.9.1 14 41", H OC. 16.48 15 0 13 81 14 34 14.87 16 40 16 93 15.6 14 36 14 92 16.47 16.02 16.67 16.0 14.93 16.60 16.07 16 05 17.22 16.6 16.61 16.10 16.70 17.30 17.89 17 0 16 08 IS. 70 17.32 17 94 18.65 I 175 16 65 17.29 17.93 18 67 19 21 18.0 17.22 17.88 18.65 19.21 19.87 OO |