92 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TABLE 61.—Farm practice respecting the use of manure in sugar-beet production
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES BY STATES, 1922
| Data are for those farms only on which manure was applied to the sugar-beet land]
—_—r
Ares
United States:
Average for farms investigated
cee car cece
Michigan.
Ohio. .... .
Nebraska... i
“olorado.-. am
‘tah. ...- ea
daho. oo. reme————
Wyoming... .ccceccoeae..
MOANA. « cn wv nwr mrs
California... _
Percent
age of
total
sugarbeet
acreage
hat was
manured
Per cent
i
[.oads of
manure
per acre
Loads
0 C
Average
tons per
load
Tons
hee
Us
Labor of hauling
and spreading per
load
Man
nours
Horse
hours
Herve
Value of
manure
er load
$1. 21
«23
2.10
.19
19
%. 54
~ost per
load for
manure
and maaguring
!
$1.97
2.80
2.57
1.98
1.94
1.99
1.50
1.59
1.35
3.82
{ These figures include the value of manure and cost of man labor and horse labor, but do not include
aquipment cost. They, of course, are not at all comparable with the data shown in Tables 17 and 18, as
the average cost of manure, because the data here refer to the acreage manured only, while there they refer
to the entire beet acreage harvested; and also here the total value per load is considered, while there the
cost has reference to only that part of the total value that is chargeable to the beet crop of a certain year.
TABLE 62.—Farm practice respecting the use of commercial fertilizer
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES BY STATES, 1922
[Data are for only those farms on which commercial fertilizer was applied to the sugar-beet land]
Farmsusingfertilizer| Acreage fertilized ' Fertilizer per acre
Area
United States.....
Michigan. ae cece cece cccceccecemnan
Ohio. ce ccmaeenn ——_——
Numb*
Ar cent
f total
Numbe
iy &
er cent
<f beet
acreage
nvestia
Quantity
applied
46
Cost ¥
$2.72
2. 67
2.86
1 Includes the cost of the fertilizer only, and not the cost of hauling and spreading. The data presented
here are not comparable with those shown in Tables 17 and 18, because the former refer to the farms that
used commercial fertilizer only, and the latter refer to all farms for which costs are obtained.
NoTE.—Of the 9 States included in this investigation only the 2 listed above used commercial fertilizer
on sugar-beet land.
TABLE 63.—Sugar-beet seed: Pounds per acre, planted by growers
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1922
A Tes
United States 2..__.
MIChIZAM . «i med sie a sin SS
DIO cw eee erm cg eee 6 er me GREE
Nebraska... ...... meme.
Colnrada
Average
number of
pounds of
sugar-beet
seed
planted 1
Pounds per
acre
i a1
{7 w
Area
Utah.......
"ABD. loon cwmmmns
yoming. . ooo.
RY Ke) 1} 7: 4 1: VIII
Californie. eee mea
Average
number of
pounds of
sugar-beet
seed
slanted
Pounds per
acre
14.7
15.5
16.6
16.8
18.1
1 The pounds given here are for the acres planted once and do not include the seed for acreage replanted.
Consequently the product of the price paid by growers per pound of seed multiplied by the number of
pounds of seed planted per acre may not equal the seed cost per acre shown in the tables analyzing
the costs of production. The cost per acre of seed shown in the analysis tables includes the cost of seed
planted on abandoned acreage as well as on the acreage harvested. .
1 The weighted average prices paid by growers for seed were 23 cents per pound in 1921, 18 cents per pound
n 1922. and 16 cents per pound in 1923
