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 ee 
Corporation, hereinafter called the Sugar Company, and . ‘ 
oe « OF & x . , Countyof .... , 
. , 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 
