Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-22
CONTRACTS FOR nEET RAISING.
Farmers Around Grand Island will
limElN Attnch Their Sirnmtmrn

iingIy Attach Their Signatures.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., jan 21.-(Special)
The blank contracts for the raising of beets
for the ensuing 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. These
contract books are usually closed some time
in March, and 1t 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 pay
ment of an additional 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 1t from the
state. The conditions of this } RS contract
are as follows:
That seed for planting the aforesaid acre
per pound, f. o. b. Grand Island and here
by agree that | will not sell or give away
beets grown therefrom at the factory at
such times as agreed upon in this contract,
the base of bottom leaf, said beets to be
free from dirt and in marketable conli-
ton, for the sum of 81 per ton; provided
less than II ner cent sugar to the weight
Of the beet with purity. coeflicient of so.
That all seed furnished for the replanting
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 fun stand / will not
plant less than eighteen pounds of seed per
acre.
That all beets must be kept free ofrom
frost, 1t being distinctly understood that
t1e ONnard Beet Sugar company Will only
accept hects that are i'm a sound condition
at the time of shipment
That bectS are to be delivered al the op-
ton of the ONnard Beet Sugar company
upon reasonable notice from the company
15, After that date the Oxnard Beet Sugar
company shall have the option of ordering
IN bcets as they may require; provided;
the beets so grown in all, not less than four
tons of beets per acre of the acreage to be
vember, 1897 and not less than six tons per
acre previous to the 1st day of February
lS9S, and AL the remainder previous to the
That should any beets grown under this
contract fail to come up to the standard of
of SO, then they. shall be paid for at the fol-
lowing scale of prices. viz: For all beets
sSgar Win % nfy fTs s 5 per II pSr tom efo r S
bccts containing not less than 10 per cent
of sugar & with 20 purity, $40 per ton
low grade beets shall not he delivered by
me until after the OXnard Beet Sugar COM
pany shall have worked up all beets that
of sugar with purity of so, unless the OK
nard Beet Sugar company should otherwise
company shall not be required to accept
any portion of said beets containing less
than 10 per cent of sugar and 10 purity.
TIat all analyses made by the OXnard
Beet Sugar 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 competent chemist
to whom the ONnard Beet Sugar company
shall give free access to lts beet laboratory
for the purpose of checking the test made
by the chemist of the ONnard Beet Sugar
company.
That | will notify the Oxnard Beet Sugar
company after my bects are laid by, but
not later than August 10, how many acres
or beets l Will have to harvest the next
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