50 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS

Table 20 summarizes the findings of the cost investigation concerning
 the relation between the yield of sugar beets per acre and
the costs of production per acre and per ton in 1922. With an
increase in the yield per acre, the general trend of acre costs is upward
 as would be expected, but the trend of net costs per ton inclusive
 of capital charges is downward. This holds true until an average
 yield per farm of from 21 to 22 tons per acre is reached.
TABLE 20.—Relation of yield of sugar beets to costs of production per acre and per ton
UNITED STATES—SUMMARY FOR THE NINE STATES INVESTIGATED, 1922

Net costs

Yield per acre (tons)

2-7 nr
5-5,
BR ¥
r

1

Number
of farms

10
2
A

Acreage of sugar
beets harvested

Average
Total per fren

148.0
970. 0
754.6
1,464.2
2, 515. 6
2,785.0
1699.7
858.7
929.
8.
9.4
ry
4d

49. &
97.0
31. &
26, ¢
fo

I'otal
sons of
sugar
beets
arvested’

426.7
3,417.1
3,324.8
7,962.7
16, 318. §
™ 575. 1
SH
ny
pr

Per acre | Per ton

txclusive! Inclusive | Exclusive Inclusive
of capital of capital; of capital| of capital
charges | charges charges | charges

$73.18
59.97
64. 89
61.29
57.57
¢0. 08
63.99
63.31
"4 48
Tt 14
92
“16
“30
77
ng

$91.12
72.86
80. 51
76. 7¢
73.8%
72.02
30.70
78.13
79.5.
30. 8&7
32.6
24.9%
22 BC
', 98
. 16
TT 9
¢

$25. 38
17.02
14.73
11.27
8.87
8.13
7-2


$31. 60
22.39
18.27
14.10
11.39
9.88
9, 52
3.22
To
7.08
6.71
1
6.01
5. 67
5.39
5.67
5.44
5.01
5.06
4.97
3.90
5.40
8.60
4,81
7.15

IR
4a
5. 13

‘0
o
-
aw

a

168. 24

. OL

NoTE.~Data for 2 farms investigated where the crop was a total failure are excluded from this tabulation.