The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-01-11
SUGAR BEET MEETING

AT meeting nolQ at fOCdIeliC
Friday and Saturday, Jan. and g.
of the delegates representing eleven
beet growing counties and the Utah
Idaho and Amalgamated Sugar COM
panies, a contract was arrived at for
the coming year.
Owing to the uncertainty of the
sugar market and the condition of
the sugar companies, we were I'M
able to change the minimum in our
contract. The sugar companies feel
that they would rather run some or
their mills with q smaller acreage
and be safe than all of them at
risk.
We feel that with the profit shar-
ing clause in our contract, by which
we have already received 1925 on
our beets and will at the present
outlook receive at least 81, that we
could not ask the sugar company
to put out a contract which might
ruin them financially. And that we
might retain our profit sharing con-
tract and seek to get fair division
of the profits on the business and
see their factories run at full blast
this coming campaign.
We should retain our old contract
with these changes in our favor:
Instead of the first payment on
the profit sharing clause being Feb
ruary /, that it read that at any
time between the first of December,
1923 and February 1, 1924 that the
company feels the sales Of sugar and
price thereof will justify they will
pay to the grower such amount as
the market will justify, as was done
voluntarily on December 20, 1922.
Also that they will honor orders
drawn on them and signed by grow
ers to hold out 21a cents per ton
from their beets to finance this beet
growers organization by which we
can put men in the laboratories and
office and keep in touch with the
business in which we become part
ners by our profit sharing contract,
so that we may arrive at the just
division of the profits and in so do
ing come to perfect understanding
and harmony between the grower
and the sugar company. We feel
that we must maintain our organiza-
ton of the beet committee of the |
farm bureau to look out for our in
JoTeSI. OO we lu'lto oil ldi ucIo W |
accept the plan of the committee to
finance the organization, get to-
gether and decide who shall be hired
to look into the manufacturing of
our beets and keep us in touch with
the business of which we are part.
We feel that we cannot afford to
let one factory stand idle. Neither
can we afford to risk our future by
not planting a good acreage of beets
this year, as the outlook is very
promising and we fell that we will
realize around 81 on our beets. We
lost this year at Blackfoot by the
roll, and a little less at Shelley,
while the farmers lost about $780,
600 which would have come to them
had they raised enough beets to
give the two factories a ninety-day
run, making about $725,OO0 which
would have passed thru our banks
and business houses of our county.
We have in our county enough
good land which was in beets and
potatoes last year to plant at least
$4,000 acres in this county and
guarantee the two factories at Shell
ley and Blackfoot about 100 days
run and put our county on more
sure financial footing at the close
If 1923.
Let every farmer consider him
self a committee of one to help put
his over. Ii
J. H. HALE, Ii
Bingham County Delegate. 8