, 1925-02-18
GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY
ANNOUNCES 1925 PRICE SCHEDULE
New Prices Will be Very Much as Last Year
Company Will Not Solicit Contracts from
Marketing Association Members

The 1925 beet contract of the
Great Western Sugar company was
announced this week as identical
with it's 1924 schedule of beet prices
except that the provision for COL
lection of dues by the company for
Beet Growers Cooperative Market
ing association is omitted.
The sliding scale of payments to
farmers for their 1925 beet crop,
based on the net sugar price and
1.-The average district sugar content
in beets as sliced, is unchanged
from the scale drawn by the asso-
Citations and the company a veal
ago and approved by the %associa-
lions at that time.
The company's announcement of
the 1925 contract, made in a letter
of February 9th sent to beet grow
ers, states that the contract will
not be changed.
No contract will be solicited by
the company from any beet grower
who is under contract with a CO.
operative Marketing association, I'M
less the grower is first released by
the association to accept the COM
pany's 1925 price schedule. In
taking this position the company is
prompted by a desire to avoid all
appearances of disregarding any Co
operative marketing law and to re-
lieve members of any possible pen
atty or liability that might arise
in case of contracting their beets
without regard to the association.
The company does not, however, ex-
press any opinion as to the legal
rights of a cooperative marketing
association in the control of its
members.
Speaking of the new contract the
company's letter to beet growers
said: "In considering a price sche-
dule for the 1925 beet crop the
company has given careful thought
to all factors. and knows hat the
price now offered affords o a
snore liberal participation under our
conditions than is offered by any
other beet sugar company in the
United States, except a relatively
few which have adopted our sliding
scale"
Referring to the agreement of the
same sliding scale arrived at a year
ago with the beet growers associa-
tions. the letter stated: THE agree
ment was generally believed to have
ended the price controversy for a
period of years. 1t increased by 60
cents a ton the 1928 price schedule.
1t was approved and endorsed by
the associations and was declared
by their leaders to represent the
rcalizations of many years efforts
to obtain a $3.50 basis. Before
that contract had a reasonable trial
eXorbitant proposals amounting to
a 60-40 demand were made by as
ISOLATION leaders, which the COM
pany felt compelled to decline"
The letter mentioned the subject
feld labor costs briefly, saying:
.''While the employment of beet field
labor is primarily a matter to be
decided between the grower and
the labor, the after q can
vass of the situation believes that
beet help can be recruited on the
basis of S22 per acre with a bonus
of so nj per acre for each one
ton in yield above IL tons" 1t is
unofficially estimated that compared
with 1924, when the labor price
was 1928 per acre, based on IA tons
before the yield bonus became OPP
erative. The new price for field
labor will reduce this item of cost
on more than one-half of h 1925
acreage.
With the contract subject to no
change the company urged every
one who plans to grow the beet
crop in the coming season to pre-
pare the seed bed in time to
realize the highest possible yields.
The letter closed with the state
ment that "the company believes
no grower should be denied the
privilege freely to plant and harvest
without penalty the acreage of beets
20 desires to contract"
Contracts with non-members of
cooperative marketing associations
are being signed.