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beets, $3.25 for 11-75 beets and $2.50 for 10-70 beets. The 
grower was to pay 15 cts. per pound for beet seed and plant 
18 pounds. Beets of any weight are accepted. Their 1898 
contract is changed. They agree to pay for beets containing 
12 to 14.4 per cent sugar and not less than 78 per cent purity 
$4.00 per ton; for beets of equal purity, and 14.5 to 15.4 per 
cent sugar $4.25 per ton and 25 cents per ton additional for 
every like per cent of sugar over 15.4 per cent, and purity 
not less than 78 per cent. Then 11-78 beets are to be $3.50 
per ton; 10-70 beets $3.00 per ton. Fifteen cents per ton 
reduction for every degree (or fraction thereof) of purity 
below 78, and no beets to be accepted containing less than 
10 per cent sugar and of 73 per cent purity. The contract 
at first provided that if Hawaii is annexed to the United 
States, a reduction of 50 cents per ton is to be made from 
all the above prices ; but this clause was cut out. The grow- 
ers may also have a chemist check the analyses at their own 
expense. 
The other Oxnard factory, operated by the Chino Val- 
ley Beet-Sugar Company, of Chino, California, makes a 
reduction in its contract of 15 cents per ton for each and 
every degree of purity below 78 per cent, and of 50 cents per 
ton for each and every per cent of sugar below 12 per cent, 
down to and including 10 per cent, below which no beets are 
to be received. The company pays $3.50 per ton for beets 
with 12 per cent sugar, and 20 cents per ton increase for 
every additional .per cent of sugar in the beets. It reserves 
the right to reject very large beets. The growers are allowed 
to have a representative in the tare room, and the weigh 
room, and a check chemist in the laboratory. 
The Pecos Valley Beet-Sugar Company pays under its 
contract $4.00 per ton for 12-80 beets. 
The Spreckles Sugar Company, of Watsonville, Califor- 
nia, has a very simple contract. It provides beet seed at 10 
cents per pound. It rejects beets weighing overlive pounds, 
and deducts 5 per cent tare in all cases, for dirt etc. It pays 
$4.00 per ton for all beets, and makes no limitations as to 
sugar or purity, except that they shall be fit for sugar-making 
purposes. 
GENERAL CONTRACT NOTES. 
All beet contracts are for one year only, and define the 
acreage of beets to be grown, agreeing to take all that are 
as per contract. In all beet contracts the grower is to be 
paid the 15th of each month for all beets delivered the pre- 
vious month. All factories provide the beet seed to be 
