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This innovation -would involve the necessity on the part of the producers of beets 

 of placing at each factory a representative charged with the inspection of the mani- 

 fold operations connected with their deliveries, and the sugar works would willingly 

 accept this agent, not only because it would be the exercise of a right, but also because 

 this agent would relieve them of all responsibility to the vendor. 



En resume, the plan of an arbitration bond submitted to the assembly is intended to 

 prevent the return of the difficulties of 1375. It takes account of the reclamations 

 raised by the sugar manufacturers, and at the same time guards the interests of the 

 growers. 



A work of conciliation, this arbitration is not drawn up for the exclusive profit of 

 one of the parties ; growers and the sugar manufacturers alike may make it the basis 

 of their conditions. 



After this statement followed by a discussion participated in by Messrs. Lalaux, 

 Lehoult, Ernest Robert, Thuete, Eustache Damoisy, Suin, Francois Honorez. Gladieux, 

 Gohzelle, Yoiret, and other cultivators, the different articles of the plan for the arbi- 

 tration bond were successively studied, modified or adopted, and the assembly ad- 

 journed, after having adopted almost with unanimity the entire arbitration bond 

 worded as follows : 



ARBITRATION BOXD BASED UPON PURCHASE ACCORDING TO QUALITY. 



Article I. The beets shall be delivered at (he sugar-factory, the rasping- works, or 

 the scales. 



Art. II. They shall be delivered healthy, without top, cut off immediately below 

 the last leaves. 



Art. III. "Bouteuscs," or forage beets, frozen or altered ones, or those coming from 

 marshes or cleared woodland, shall be refused, or at least specially reserved. 



Art. IV. The delivery shall be made on all workable days, without interruption, 

 from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the evening in September and 

 until the 15th of October. After this date it may take place from six o'clock in the 

 morning until six o'clock in the evening. 



Art. V. The discharge of merchandise must be cared for by the purchaser, who 

 shall take measures necessary to prevent delay in transportation. 



Art. VI. The weight, tare, density, and all operations depending upon the delivery 

 shall be taken in presence of the vendor or his agent and assistants. 



Art. VII. The tare shall be determined with a basket of beets taken without choice, 

 and in the same manner as the discharge is effected. 



Art. VIII. The density is taken w-ith the same lot of beets which have served for 

 determination of the tare. It is taken with each tare and immediately after it. 



Art. IX. The density shall be taken by one of the three methods given below : 



1st. Either by rasping the entire basket of beets that have served for taking the 

 tare. 



2d. Or by dividing all the roots in the basket into fourths, in the direction of their 

 length, and rasping one-fourth of the whole. 



3d. Or using the cylindrical borer, which shall be passed into each root in the bas- 

 ket in a transverse direction near its center of gravity — that is, at about the upper 

 third of its length — after it has been topped. 



Art. X. The density shall be taken and expressed in figures only after ten minutes 

 after the densimeter (pese-jus) shall have been immersed in the liquid. 



Art. XL The manufacturer of sugar shall not use the numerous operations depend- 

 ent upon taking the density as a pretext for delay in the entry of beets to his works. 



Art. XII. The price is fixed at francs per 1,000 kilograms (ton) for beets, of 



which the pure juice at a temperature of 15° centigrade (G2° Fahr.) shall mark 5° on 

 the densimeter. 



Art. XIII. All degrees of density are paid for, and the price applied to the basis 



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