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FEDERAL
VOLUME 3

REGISTER
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AflTED

NUMBER 67

Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 1938
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
D e t e r m in a t io n o f F a ir a n d R e a s o n a b l e W age R a t e s f o r P e r
s o n s E m p l o y e d i n t h e P r o d u c t io n , C u l t i v a t io n or H ar
v e s t in g o f t h e 1938 C r o p o f S u g a r B e e t s A p r il 4, 1938.
Whereas, Section 301 b of the Sugar Act of 1937 provides, as one of the conditions for payment to producers of sugar beets and sugarcane, as follows:
b That all persons employed on the farm in the production, cultivation, or harvesting of sugar beets or sugarcane with respect to which an application for payment is made shall have been paid in fu ll for all such work, and shall have been paid wages therefor at rates not less than those that may be determined by the Sec retary to be fair and reasonable after investigation and due notice and opportunity for public hearing; and in making such determina tions the Secretary shall take into consideration the standards therefor formerly established by him under the Agricultural A d justment Act, as amended, and the differences in conditions among various producing areas: Provided, however, That a payment which would be payable except for the foregoing provisions of this sub section may be made, as the Secretary may determine, in such manner that the laborer will receive an amount, insofar as such payment will suffice, equal to the amount of the accrued unpaid wages for such work, and that the producer will receive the re mainder, if any, of such payment.

and Whereas, the Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to a notice of hearing, dated January 14, 1938,1 held public hearings for the purpose o f receiving evidence likely to be of assistance to him in determining fair and reasonable wage rates for per sons employed in the production, cultivation or harvesting of the 1938 crop of sugar beets.
Now, therefore, I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, after investigation and due consideration of the evidence obtained at the aforesaid hearings and all other information before me, do hereby determine fair and reasonable wage rates for persons employed in the production, cultivation, or harvesting of the 1938 crop of sugar beets on farms from which such sugar beets were contracted to be delivered to factories located in the districts given below, to be not less than the following:
District I. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin:
Blocking, thinning and hoeing, $11.00 per acre. Pulling and topping, $7.00 for 7 tons or less per acre plus $1.00 for each ton per acre in excess of 7 tpns per acre.
District I I . Minnesota and Iowa:
Blocking, thinning, and hoeing:
Old method or hill drop fields, $12.50 per acre.
Blocked fields, $10.50 per acre.
3. P. R. 108 D I .
a Tonnage figures represent net short tons per acre.

Cross cultivated fields, $9.50 per acre.
Pulling and topping, $6.30 for 7 tons or less per acre, and 90 cents for each ton per acre in excess of 7 tons per acre.
District III.Kansas:
Blocking and thinning, $7.50 per acre.
1st hoeing, $2.00 per acre.
2nd hoeing or weeding, $1.00 per acre.
Pulling and topping, 90 cents per ton up to and including yields of 12 tons per acre; for yields in excess of 12 tons, 80 cents per ton.
District IV. Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Oregon:

Southern
Wyoming,
Blocking and thinning, $8.00 per acre.
1st hoeing, $2.50 per acre.
2nd hoeing or weeding, $1.50 per acre.
Pulling and topping, 90 cents per ton up to and including yields of 12 tons per acre; for yields in excess of 12 tons, 80
cents per ton. Where loading is performed by the same laborers doing the topping, 10 cents per ton shall be added to the topping rates.
District V . Montana Northern Wyoming:
Blocking and thinning, $9.50 per acre.
1st hoeing, $2.50 per acre.
2nd hoeing or weeding, $1.50 per acre.
Pulling and topping, 90 cents per ton up to and including yields of 12 tons per acre; for yields in excess of 12 tons, 80 cents per ton. Where loading is performed by the same laborers doing the topping, 10 cents per ton shall be added to the topping rate.
District V I. Northern California and Washington:
Blocking and thinning, $7.50 per acre or 40 cents per hour.
1st hoeing, $2.00 per acre or 35 cents per hour.
2nd hoeing or weeding, $1.50 per acre or 35 cents per hour.
Pullinff, topping and loading Net tons per acre:
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Rate per ton
---------- $2 .2 3
--------1. 98
--------- 1. 73
--------1. 48
--------1. 33
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--------- 1.1 3
--------- 1 .0 8
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--------- 1. 00
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.94
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--------. 89
--------. 87
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--------.8 3

Topping, 50 cents per hour.
Loading, 45 cents per hour.

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