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1 These data were taken from the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture, 1923, Table 356, p. 842, supplemented by unpublished statistics in the files of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Depart- ment of Agriculture that were furnished with permission of the companies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 ’ 1C 12 7 4, 00. >’ 83; 40( _, 840 3 983 Idaho oceee oo