COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS

31]

or 2.3 per cent, more sugar was extracted per ton of sugar beets in
the area covered by the investigation than was extracted, on the
average, from all beets grown in the country. This makes the cost
of producing sugar beets per pound of sugar extracted, as shown in
this report, probably a little less than it would have been if all sugarbeet
 farms in the country had been included in the investigation.

TABLE 12.—Comparison of the pounds of sugar extracted per ton of sugar beets
included in the investigation with the pounds of sugar extracted per ton of sugar
heels produced on all farms

SUMMARY WOR UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 1922,
AND 1923

State and vear

Tnited States:
All States and all
farms—
3-year average. _;
1921...
1922 nnn
1923........
Farms investigated—

3-year average..|
1921... ___._
1922. cco cu
1923. __

Michigan:
3-year average._.!
1921 _______.i
1!
1923 ________

Ohio:
3-vear average. _,
1921... _.
1922__._____.
1923 ______.

Nebraska:
3-year average..’
1921. ___.._
1922. __._..
1923 ____..__%

Pounds
of sugar
stracted!
per ton
of sugar
»eets har-|
rested on
111 farms

Dounds
ver ton
258.0
262.3
260.6
251.4

260. 5
265. §
262. 1
253. 7

229. 9
212.1
234.9
249. 4

204. 0
196. 5
223.9
197. 8

251. 2
279 2
emg
229. 7

Pounds
of sugar
axtracted
per ton
of sugar
veets harvested
 on
he farms
ncluded
nthe inrestiga-



Pounds
per ton

263. 9
268. 1
263. 2
259. 6

229.7
215. 5
20.4
48. R

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Pa

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Amount
py which
he number
 of
pounds
of sugar
ixtracted
per ton
of sugar
peets harvested
 on
the farms
included
in the in-7estiga-

 exeeds
 the
pounds
of sugar
axtracted
by all
nills per
ton of
sugar
deets harvested
 on
31] farms

Pounds
per ton

3.4
2.6
1.1
59

State and vear

Colorado:
3-year average..
1921... ....
1922_.......
1988. nn
Utah:
3-year average...
1921... .._.
1922... .....
11923...
[daho:
3-year average...
1921... _.._.
1922... _._.
1923 _.......
Wyoming:
3-year average..
1921. .......
1922 ___._..
1923_..._...
Montana:
3-year average..
192). con.
1922... _..
1923... _.
California:
2-year average..
1921... ¢
1922...
1923. ....

Amount
by which
the number
 of
pounds
of sugar
pxtracted
per ton
aly of sugar
Pounds extracted beets yi
of sugar per ton the farms
axtracted of sugar included
per ton beets har: in the inof
 sugar | vested on voitign.
oeets har-| the farms tion ga
vested on included seeds the
all farms 'inthein- ~ und
vestiga- po 3
Ion of sugar
extracted
by all
mills per
ton of
sugar
beets harvested
 on
all farms

Pounds
per ton
250. 3
258.7
250. 2
240 9

Pounds
per ton
256. 0
261.0
253.9
252.0

Pounds
per lon
5.7
2.3
3.7
11.1

264.3
270. 5
268.1
254 Q

258. 2
262. 8
259.0
252.6

—6.1
-7.7
—9.1
-2.3

NAG
ry, 3
i.

308. 2
318.2
315.7
206 4

21.6
19.6
24.3
21.7

265. 5
274.7
272. 4
255. 8

-2.2
—3.7
-8.¢
2 4

TRY

281 €
0;

281.6
300. 7
206. 9
261.1

0
0
0
0

z
6
1

344. @
235.2
563. C
356. 6

8.7
7.6
8.0
11.3

tu.

5

1 The amount of sugar extracted per ton of sugar beets harvested on the farms included in the investi
gation is unusually high for Idaho because a large percentage of the beets were manufactured into sugat
at the Twin Falls plant, which employs the Steffens process.

NOTE.—A minus (—) sign indicates that the average pounds of sugar extracted per ton of beets harvested
on 2ll tapes was greater than the average pounds extracted per ton of beets harvested on the farms
nvestigated.