The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-10-05
Will Add SIS 5000, 900 to Income
of Sugar Beet Growers
This Year.

Chester c. Davis, on Tuesday an.
nounced from Washington, D. C.
a sugar beet program guaranteed
to bring prices to growers up tc
the parity level.
The plan, announcement OF
which precedes actual submission
OF the crop adjustment contract
to producers for signature by a
few days, will add approximately
$4,000, 900 to the income Of beet
growers this year and bring their
total income to within s., 000, DOC
OF the record of SIS, COZ, 900 re-
ceived last year, Davis declared.
This is the best plan of crop
income insurance for the drought
stricken beet areas we have been
able to devise under the law" he
said.
Growers who sign contracts will
receive an advance payment of
81 a ton on their normal yield
times their acres planted this
year and a final payment Of not
less than Is cents a ton. In adj
dition a tax refund estimated at
81, 900 is to be paid on that
portion of each farmers 1888
beet production unsold as sugar
on June 8, 1884.
Charles M. Learney, president of
the National Beet Growers asso-
citation, voiced approval of the
program.
lone of the salient features of
the sugar beet production adjust
ment contract is the provision
that provides cash payments to
eligible growers who sign an acre
age adjustment contract with the
secretary of agriculture" he said.
"This contract will add more
than $10,000,0 900 to beet producers
incomes from the 1884 crop. Crow
ers will also receive refund pay
ments based on the production
and income from the 1888 crop
because of the processing and
floor stock tax which went into
effect June 8, 1884.
while w had hoped for a
larger advance cash payment, un-
q~uestionably the distress of our
farmers and laborers will be ma
terially relieved.
with the cooperation of our
growers and a friendly admins
tration Of the Jones' ostigan
amendment and of this contract,
I am confident that beet farmers
and the industry will receive
further substantial benefits" he
added.
The contract sign-up campaign
will begin with a series of regional
meetings in beet areas to be con-
Quoted by John E. Dalton, chief
of the AAA sugar section, begin
ming not later than Oct. 20. First
benefit payment checks totaling
about $40 1000, 900 will go to grow
ers not later than Dec. /, the
administration promised.
States primarily affected by the
beet program are: Colorado, Cali
fornia, Michigan, Nebraska, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Ohio,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Kansas and Washington.
To facilitate administration the
program is based on the factory
district as a unit with acreage al
for each grower to be
worked out as each individuals
share of the total figure on his
average past production. Produc-
ton control associations will ad-
details Immediately af-
fecting producers.
The beet sugar plan is part Of
the general program under the
jones' ostigan act designed to
limit production Of sugar in con-
tinental United States and island
and territories and
importations from Cuba to ap-
proximately the level of domestic
consumption. Beet growers were
given a quota Of 1,550,000 tons,