COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 29 
In like manner Table 10, below, showing higher average yields per 
acre of sugar beets on the farms investigated than on all farms in any 
State, may mean that the farms for which cost data were obtained are 
hetter or are operated by more efficient farmers. 
TABLE 10.— Comparison of ytelds of sugar beets per acre for the farms tnvestigated 
with the average vields of sugar beets for all farms 
Btate and yield 
United States: 
All States— 
3-vear average. 
1921. ___.... 
1922____.... 
1923 __._._. 
Rtates investi- 
gated— 
3-year average. _| 
1921... __. 
102 cine 
1923. ___. 
Michigan: 
3-year average. . 
51 a NE 
1922________ 
1923_______. 
Ohio: 
3-vear average... 
202) cdi ms 
1922___.___. 
923 
Nebraska: 
3-year average._.| 
| LA S. 
1922 ____._. 
1923... 
Average yields of 
sugar beets 
For all 
(Arms as 
epasen For the 
1923 farms in- 
“earbook tHided in 
of the vestiga- 
Depart- tion 
nent of 
\gricul- 
ture 
fons per 
cre 
En 
Tons per 
nere 
0.12 
o 67 
6.91 
a QR 
11. 46 
11. 01 
11. 32 
12 16 
1 
9.39 
9.18 
9.65 
Q. 47 
on 
9. 60 
9.03 
9.47 
0. 15 
Excess of 
vield for 
farms 
nvesti- 
zated 
over 
yields for 
all farms 
growing 
heets 
Tons per 
nlere 
1.34 
1.34 
1 41 
1. 28 
1.38 
1.38 
1.42 
1 26 
84 
ng 
4 
State and yield 
Colorado: 
3-year average... 
1921...._... 
1922 ___.__. 
TOR. cis 
Utah: 
3-vear average. . 
1921__.___.. 
1922... 
1923. cn cin 
Idaho: 
3-year average... 
1921... 
1922... 
10923, cuit 
Wyoming: 
3-year average. . 
1921 __..__ 
1922 _._.._. 
1923...___.. 
Montana: 
3-year average... 
1921 __.____ 
1922 _.._... 
1923___.__.. 
“alifornia: 
3-vear average.__ 
1921 _._.._. 
1922... .... 
1923... __ 
Average yields of 
sugar beets 
For all 
farms as 
reported 
in the 
1923 
Y earbook 
of the 
Depart- 
ment of 
Agricul- 
ture 
For the 
farms in 
luded in 
this in- 
vestiga- 
tion 
Tons per 
sere 
12.21 
11.39 
fo? 
Tons per 
acre 
12. 51 
12. 97 
11.19 
13. 15 
15 
11. 36 
10. 26 
1% 26 
12. 91 
13.37 
12. 31 
13. 08 
14 ]RK 
10. 70 
9.18 
11. 59 
11.68 
10. 15 
8 Ae 
14.17 
11.06 
13. 84 
11.72 
14. 63 
15. 43 
11. 61 
10. 73 
12. 19 
11 82 
In °C 
Oo 
12.40 
11.87 
1.68 
13. 22 
% 64 
© 55 
85 
R44 
Excess of 
yield for 
farms 
investi- 
gated 
over 
yields for 
all farms 
growing 
beets 
Tons per 
acre 
0.30 
1.58 
1.26 
1.00 
2.01 
2.05 
1.79 
1. 97 
3.14 
2.54 
3.04 
3.78 
1.46 
2.07 
-1. 98 
.78 
1.71 
2.68 
. 66 
2.10 
.04 
-. 12 
.45 
-—.058 
Nore.—A minus sign (—) preceding a figure indicates that the average yields on all farms exceed the 
average vields on the farms investicated bv that smount. 
Table 11 (p. 30) shows that for the three years 1921 to 1923 the 
average sugar content of the beets grown in the representative areas 
of the States investigated was greater by one-half a pound per ton 
of beets harvested than the average sugar content for all beets grown 
in the nine States visited and higher by 1.4 pounds per ton than the 
average for all beets grown in the 17 sugar-beet producing States.