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$12.00 per acre when the thinning and hoeing is completed. 
$10.00 per acre when the pulling and topping is done. 
It is also agreed that The Sugar Company is to furnish for the 
farmer a comfortable home in which the laborer is to live, and 
ac from his present city to the house in which he is to 
ve. 
As a guarantee of the performance of the above contract it is 
agreed that The Sugar Company is to retain for the farmer two 
dollars per acre from the first settlement until the work is com- 
pleted in the fall. 
It is further agreed that on arrival at the place of labor, a con- 
tract will be entered into between the laborer and the farmer 
whose beets he is to care for, which shall supersede and cancel 
this agreement but will describe more specifically the work to be 
done. 
THE. ....... .. . SUGAR COMPANY 
PGES ost Ge ie oe Gee 
Dated . . ... + . 191. 
joe eR eee ee we ww Laborer, 
A form of labor contract between the sugar company 
and the farmer is given below. 
ORIGINAL 
GROWERS’ APPLICATION AND AGREEMENT FOR 
BEET WORKERS, 1918 
. . . . . SUGAR COMPANY, 
Ts ee a OES . . . Countyof. ..., 
State ‘of - fe ode , hereby make application tothe . . 
Sugar Company (hereinafter ealled the company), for hand 
laborers tocarefor. . . . . acres of sugar-beets, planted 
inrows. ... _ inches apart, to be grown by me for said 
Sugar Company on ‘Section ‘ . « » Township . 
. County. . . E , State of. . . . » during the 
season beginning with the spring of 1918; the cost ‘of such labor 
