26 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TABLE 7.—Scope of the investigation of the costs of production of sugar beets, by 
the United States Tariff Commission, 1922 
Number of farms pro- 
ducing sugar beets for 
sugar 
Acres of sugar beets har- 
vested 
Tons of sugar beets har- 
vested 
Num- 
ber for | Per- Per- 
which [centage rentage 
a hs, Total (ATE ores 
in this [gated is farms) ? gated | oe of 
investi-| of total total 
zation, in 1919 acreage 
State and area 
Per- 
centage 
that 
produc- 
tion in- 
vesti- 
zated is 
of total 
produc- 
tion 
Total 
ini9191 
Total  orme 
onsen | investi- 
all farms ? gated 
United States._......__.. 
Michigan_____. ....__._.1 14,812 
Alma-St. Louis... 
Bay City. eae aa] 
(6: Jo JPN 
OWOSSO. comment cman 
Sebewaing... __... _..____. 
2, 242 
4.7 
530, 000 | 54, 875 
84.000 | 5, 68% 
10.4 
5,183,000 1 626, 807 
6.81 692,000 54,837 
12.1 
7.9 
87 
10.7 
13.0 
478 
3.2 
1¢ 
{ 
1C 
16. 
]f 
lo. 
x 
1, 186 
5, 067 
9, 78¢ 
9, 639 
9, 157 
ly <n 
|, 056 
934 
DOIG: convnmmummmmpmmmmmn? 
Nebraska eo. _____i 
Colorado. acooeemao.= 
Fort Collins._.__.... ___ 
Fort Morgan —____. ._____. 
Greeley. .c.p-arns=c==! vane 7] 
Rocky Ford_________ ..__._. 
Sterling moomoo 
3,684 | 145 
1,531 200 
7,604  3%° 
3.9 26,0001 2,023 
13.11 55000 | 9,482 
7.7 | 148,000 17,063 
7.8 © 220,000 - 
17.21 703,000 
11.5 |1, 466, 000 
19, 162 
190. 992 
10.7 
34 532 jnmiumman 
3C, 000 jmrrumme- 
23. 256 [mm---m== 
"7 Te.5 
C213 
14.6 
15.4 
of [000 
a sof nm mw 
1 Data are not available for other than census years, therefore the best comparsion that can be made is with 
hese data taken from the reports of the Fourteenth U. S. Census. 
1 These data were taken from the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture, 1923, Table 356, p. 842, 
supplemented by unpublished statistics in the files of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture that were furnished with permission of the companies concerned. 
2 
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1C 
12 
7 
4, 00. 
>’ 83; 
40( 
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3 983 
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