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Show Sugar Oeei Crop Price Set At $7.00 For 1030 Crop An agreement on the 1930 sugar beet price was reached by the manufacturers man-ufacturers and Utah Sugar Beet Cooperative association last week the guarantee price being set at 7.00 nc-r ton. This is the same minimum Price as was paid during the past I season. The sugar beet association is encouraging en-couraging the growers of the state to grow beets for 1930 on any ground suitable for that purpose, it was said at the bureau. They feel that more attention should be paid to making mak-ing the beet ground more fertile and giving it more care in order to increase in-crease the tonnage, which would be Farmers complained could not profit on their crop at S7.00 a ton. but they agreed that sugar companies could not pay more un.l fte sugar market became more seW-Gd seW-Gd through disposition of the tarift hill, now pending in congress. to the advantage of the farmer, said j ihe bureau's statement. I Efforts are being made by the association as-sociation to get an increase in the sugar tariff and resolution to ttat effect is being sent to representatives j in consrress and to oUier beet grow- The $7.00 minimum is the lowest Jt rowers have received in Uu re,rs, according to the Uah Farm bureau- Acreage and tonnage have f decreased until neither -he wer noCr the manufacturer can h0pe to make a profit on beets unU. conditions have been bet-ered. Ing states, according to the bureau's i report. J. W. Gillman, president of the! i cooperative association, presided at' i the meeting. The beet association met Wednesday, while Thursday the I meeting was a joint one. i |