Contracts for Raising Beets 95 



labor much easier than the individual farmer and it, 

 therefore, maintains a labor department whose duty it is 

 to assist the farmer to get help when he needs it. 



Often contracts call for some special bonus based on the 

 total quantity of beets in the district or some other con- 

 dition that will boost the industry. These are usually 

 local and, therefore, call for no particular discussion. 



SAMPLE CONTRACTS 



The following contract gives a flat rate for beets, but 

 allows the farmer to share the benefits of a rise in price 

 of sugar : 



No. . . 



Acres . . 

 Sugar Company 



SUGAR-BEET CONTRACT 



(Locality) 



1918 



THIS AGREEMENT, in duplicate, this . . day of 191 , 

 by and between .... SUGAR COMPANY, a .... 

 Corporation, hereinafter called the Sugar Company, and . . . 



...... of , County of 



. . . , hereinafter called the Grower. 



WITNESSETH : The Grower agrees to grow in the year of 

 1918, from seed to be supplied by the Sugar Company . . . 

 . . . acres of sugar-beets, and to deliver and sell the entire crop 

 therefrom to the Sugar Company, and the latter agrees to buy and 

 pay for the same, upon all and singular the terms and conditions 

 hereinafter set forth, to-wit : 



1. The Grower will prepare and cultivate the said land and 

 harvest the beets grown thereon in a husbandlike manner, and 

 deliver all beets with the tops closely cut off at the base of the 



