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Show Minimum Beet Pav Rates Set By AAA To be eligible for payments under . the new sugar control act, farmers must comply with certain minimum ! wage rates for beet labor, an AAA announcement Issued recent ly through the Utah State Agricultural College asserts. Topping rntes. as set by the bonrd. were based on the tonnage harvested harvest-ed per acre. They were ns follows: seven to eight tons to the nere. $1.07 per short ton; eight to nine tons, $1.03; nine to ten, $1; 10 to 11. 97 cents; 11 to 12. 95 cents; between 12 and 13, 93 cents; from 13 to 14, 92 cents; from 14 to 15. 91 cents; from 15 to 1G, 90 cents. For yields of between 16 and 17 tons, the rate was 89 cents; between 17 and 19, 88 cents; nnd for 19 tons per acre or over, 88 cents a ton. Officials suggest that a new wage scale for the 1938 crop will be established estab-lished later this season, n recent Associated Press new:; dispatch from Washington, d. c, reported, |