The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-25
CONTRACTS FOR BEET RAISING.
Farmers Around Grand Island Will
hngly Attach Their Signatures.


A Grand Island dispatch to the Omaha
Bee, dated Jan. 81 says: The blank con-
tracts for the raising of beets for the en-
suing year are now in circulation among
the farmers. and no trouble has so far
been experienced by the factory people
to secure signatures to the contracts.
1 hese contract books are usually closed
some time in March. and il cannot now
| be definitely told how great the acreage
this year will be. and whether or not
there will be any difficulty in making up
an acreage as large as that of last year.
Last seasons contract contained a clause
providing for the payment of an addi-
tlonal dollar per ton of beetS upon the
payment to the factory of the bounty.
The factory did not this year pay this
dollar, not having received it from the
state. The conditions of this years con-
tract are as follows:
That seed for planting the aforesaid
| acreage is to be furnished TO me at 10
and hereby agree that l will not sell or
give away any such seed and that | will
deliver all -beetS grown therefrOm at the
factory at such times as agreed uDon in
| this contract. with tops closely and
! squarely cut off at the base of bottom
leaf. said beets to be free from dirt and
in marketable condition. for the sum
! of 81 per ton; provided. however that
said beets shall contain not less than II
per cent sugar TO the weight of the beet
with purity coefficient of So
That all seeds furnished for the replant-
ing of beetS under this contract shall be
at a price of 10 cents per pound, f. o. b.
Grand Island and the amount due for
seed shall be paid for by me in cash or
be deducted from the first payment for
beetS delivered
That to secure a full stand I will not
plant less than Is pounds of seeds per
acre.
frost. it being distinctly understood that
the Oxnard Beet Sugar company will
only accept beets that are in a sound
condition al the time of shipment.
That beets are to be delivered at the
option of the Oxnard Beet Sugar COM
pany upon reasonable notice from the
company on its order. at any times prior
to Oct. Is After that date the OXnard
Beet Sugar company will have the option
of ordering in beets as they may require;
provided. however. that they order for
shipment of the beets so grown in all. not
less than four tons of beets per acre or
the acreage 10 be harvested. previous to
the 5th day of November. 1897. and not
less than six tons per acre previous to
the 1St day of February. 1898, and all the
remainder previous to the 10Th day OF
February. 1898.
That should any beets grown under this
contract fail to come up to the standard
of u per cent sugar with a purity CO
efficient of so, then they shall be paid for
at the following scale of prices. viz: For
all beets containing not less than IL per
cent of sugar with 10 purity. $50
per ton; for all beets containing not
less than 10 per cent of sugar with 20
purity. $3.50 per ton
1t being distinctly understood that sald
low grade beets shall not be delivered by
me until after the OXnard Sugar Beet
company shall have worked up all the
beets that reach the required standard of
u per cent of sugar with a purity of 80.
unless the Oxnard Sugar Beet company
should otherwise direct and that said
Oxnard Sugar Beet company shall not be
occurred to accept any portion of said
beets containing less than 10 per cent of
sugar and 20 purity.
That all analyses made by the OXnard
Sugar Beet company shall be accepted as
final. it being understood. however. that
the farmers are at liberty to select and
employ at their own expense any compe-
tent chemist to whom the Oxnard Sugar
Beet company shall give free access to
its beet laboratory for the purpose of
checking the test made by the chemist
of the Oxnard Sugar Beet company.
That | will notify the Oxnard Sugar
Beet company after my beets are laid by:
acres of beets I will have to harvest the
next fall