COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS

85

TABLE 57.— Returns for capital, management, and labor other than contract and
tractor overations— Continued

SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921,
1922. AND 1923——continued

Area’and year

Nebraska:
3-year average... —___.__.
1928 eee
1922 oo...
1923__
Colorado:
3-year average _.._____ ___
921... mmr ome
1922____. em ————-1923
 __
Utah:
3-year average... . .__.
1921... J
1922 ee
1923 ee

[daho:
3-vear average o.oo.
I ie cmm———-32

1923...- _—
Wyoming:
3-year average_.__._.
1921...
1922. ___.
1923__.
Montana:
3-year average
192) ce
1922
1923
California:
3-vear avera
21 __.
Ie °
092%

Value of
and and
other
*gnital

Pl

Per acre
5206
224
200
190

221
231
226
205

244
274
249
| OR

232
264
232
201

58
7F

Hours of
abor other
‘han con-Tact
 and
tractor
wperation

«
a);

Hours per
acre
55.6
54.8
59.1
53.2

30. 7
61.2
58. &
99 1

30. 4
59.2
60. 2
62.3

73. 4
61.1
64. 3
35.92

Amount by
which the
returns
Tom sugar
oeets exceed
 the
osts of pro-|
{uction, exclusive
 of
capital |
‘harges, the
costs of all |
direct Jabor
on machine
Jperations,
and all in- |
lirect labor!
n0sts

(4)

Per acre
347.61
2% 22
72
5.74

2.51
ne

1c
-. 97

6 AE

50. 76
51. 38

46. 28
11.84
A" A]
io!

Gross returns
 for
abor, capi:
tal, and
nanagement


(8)

Cents per
hour of lahor
 on machine
 operations
 and
indirect
labor
85.6
51.5
19.7
Q3 +

63. 4
49. 1
en (J

60.3
la 6
84.4
QR &

73.0
19.4
100. 2
105 R

2.1

JT0SS returns
 for
abor and
management


(6)

Cents per
hour of lahor
 on mashine
 operations
 and
indirect
labor
59.6
22.6
95.8
68.3

37.1
21.7
32.0
AQ 8

30.9
~19.3
54.2
75.5

47.5
'0.8
5.0
4 4

A

Gross returns
 for
capital and
management
 as exs
pressed in
Jercentages
of total
capital
:mployed
in sugarbeet
 production


™N

Per cent
14.28
4.80
26.20
16.22

8.48
4.25
7.69
15.08

6.30
—4.03
12.41
19.99
10. 46
~3.34
18.59
22.53

6.97
~2.70
6.53
15. 53

18. 08
~. 40
29.99
26
01
95
43
wv. 43

Nore.—The figures in column 2 were taken from Table 51, those in column 3 from Table 43, and those
in column 4 are derived from Table 17. All minus signs (—) indicate that the costs, as caleu}ated for use
in this table, were greater than the returns hv the amannts chown