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dirt weighed with the beets shall be tared and deducted 
from the gross weight by the first party in its customary 
manner, and shall be conclusive. Payment shall be made 
on or about the 15th day of each month for beets delivered 
the previous month. Said beets to be delivered only when 
ordered by the first party up to October 15th, 1898, after 
which time and until November 30th, 1898, second party 
may deliver beets as fast as they may desire if the said beets 
reach the required standard. To ascertain the quality of 
the beets, the first party shall at various times before and 
including November 30, 1898, and also at times of delivery, 
sample and polarize in the usual manner, the results of 
which shall be conclusive. If said beets have not reached 
the required standard by November ist, 1898, tested in the 
usual and customary manner, and if after that time and up 
to time of the delivery attain it, then the first party may 
deduct 50c per ton from the contract price. After the 30th 
of November, 1898, it shall be optional with the first party 
whether or not it accepts any beets that have not been 
delivered. The second party hereby agrees to plant, culti- 
vate, and harvest, in a husbandmanlike manner, acres 
of sugar beets on the land agreed hereon and protect them 
from the frost and sun while being harvested and delivered, 
and deliver them at the times, places, and in the manner set 
forth in this contract for the sum of Four Dollars and 
twenty-five cents per ton, to be paid as above set forth. 
This contract is not transferable. 
UTAH SUGAR COMPANY. 
By 
CONTRACTS BETWEEN FARMERS AND FACTORY. 
We present the above 1898 contract of the Utah 
Sugar Company, as a sample form, which in its general terms 
has been used for years, and has satisfied the growers. The 
1897 contract was identical, excepting that the price was 
then $4.00 per ton, and the beet seed 18 cts. per pound. 
This factory will use in 1898 about 33,000 pounds of German 
seed and 26,000 pounds of seed of its own raising. Home 
grown seed was used at Lehi and in the Pecos Valley, N. M. 
last year and produced better results than any imported 
seed. In the seven years the factory has run, it has not 
rejected over 2 per cent of the beets, on an average, for size 
and deficiency in sugar or purity. They have contracted 
3,500 acres to be grown there to beets this year. 
The two Nebraska factories use the same form of con- 
tract. That for 1897 agreed to pay $4.00 per ton, for 12-80 
