The Arvada enterprise., 1924-03-13
BEET GROWERS
GETEXTRA$l.0o
rxTRA DOLLAR FOR 1928 SEA.
SON CROP BRINGS TOTAL TO
$3.50 PER TON-STATE RE.
CEIVES $l,5@8,8l0 PAYMENT
ON APRIL FIRST.

Another dollar per ton for its sug-
ar beets of the 1928 crop will be paid
beet farmers by the Great Western
Sugar company April 1st, it has been
announced.
The total distribution among grow
ers by the company will amount to
about $2,500,000.
This represents the second pay
ment of 81 per ton since the close of
the 1928 beet harvest, a total per
ton payment to date of $3.50 in the
Colorado-Nebraska districts and 50
per ton for the beets of Montana,
which were of higher sugar content.
Present sugar market levels if
maintained until the sugar of the
1923 production is sold, would assure
further payments to the farmers un-
der the sliding scale beet contract.
The April l payment of s1.OO per
ton will bring the cash distribution
to beet farmers by the Great West
ern Sugar company to approximately
s1s,5OO,OOO. This sum will be fur
ther increased by whatever addition
al payments may be made between
April l and October Is, when final
settlement for the 1923 beets is call
ed for under the contract.
By Great Western factory districts
the distribution on April l will rep
resent the following sums:
Colorado district----$1,548,810
Nebraska district 596,036
Montana district 3O2,414
The first additional payment on
the 1923 crop, made on December 22,
1928, was Of exactly the same size
by districts and in total. The grow
ers were paid on delivery of their
beets last fall $3.50 per ton in the
Colorado Nebraska districts and Sc
per ton in the Montana territory.
Disbursement Of nearly two and
one-half million dollars on April l
will come just at the opening of the
planting of the 1924 beet crop and
in the midst Of the spring farm op-
erations in the irrigated districts
served by the company. This is GER
tain to prove Of substantial assist
ance in financing the agricultural
communities over this important sea-
son.
The average distribution on April
per beet farmer is about $500, rep
resenting 81 per ton on the yield of
the average growers beet acreage.
Hundreds of farmers, of course, will
receive greatly in excess Of this av-
erage figure, depending upon the
size of their acreage and the yields
per acre. Whole factory districts
with average yields of fourteen tons
to the acre will thus have received
more than 500 from each acre of
sugar beets, with additional sums
coming from expected later pay
ments. Not few growers with ex-
ceptional yields will realize more
than $3.50 an acre total when the
April l payment is made, they also
have still more to come.
The announcement Of the dollar
payment next month comes in the
midst of the windup Of the company's
contracting for the 1924 beet acre
age. Already more than 215,OC0
acres have been signed up by the
,company's agriculturists, with proba-
bly, 10000 acres or more additional
to be contracted before beet plant
ing time is past. The year 1924 is
expected to see one of the largest
total beet sowings in the companys 5
history.
Reports from the beet raising DIS
tricts are universally optimistic with
reference to soil conditions Tor fav-
orable beet yields in the coming "a
son. They also tell of almost uni
versal improvement in the financial
conditions as compared with recent
years. Moisture in the beet soils is
reported to be ideal for early and cx-
cellent plowing in preparation for
sowings.