COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 27 
As shown in Table 7 (p. 26) the areas investigated were in regions 
of dense production, where sugar beets are an important farm crop. 
A sufficiently large number of localities and farms were visited by 
the agents of the commission to make the data obtained representa- 
tive of the industry as a whole. 
Table 8, below, indicates that the farms investigated grew more 
acres of sugar beets per farm than did the average farm for the respec- 
tive States in which the investigations were made; and consequently 
were perhaps operated more efficiently. (See Table 9, p. 28.) The 
larger acreage of sugar beets on the farms investigated may be partly 
accounted for by the fact that cost data were not obtained for farms 
crowing less than three acres of beets per farm, although on some 
farms in each area, especially near the cities, less than three acres 
of beets per farm were grown. 
TABLE 8.—Comparison of the 1922 average acreage of sugar beets per farm on the 
farms investigated with the 1919 average acreage per farm for all farms growing 
beets in that year 
United States: 
All States..._.. 
States investigated 
tate 
Acres of sugar Acres of sugar 
beets per beets per 
‘arm growing arm on farms 
beetsin 19197 DVestigated 
in 1022 
Acres per 
farm 
13 
Acres per | 
farm : 
EY 
14 
Amount by 
xhich the av- 
arage sugar- 
Jeet acreage 
per farm in 
.922 on farms 
investigated 
exceeds the 
verage sugar 
beet acreage 
per farm on 
all farms 
rowing beets 
for sugar in 
1910 1 
Acres per 
farm 
Michigan_. _ 
Ohio._____.. 
Nebraska. cocoa cece 
Colorado......._. RRR mn mR 
Utah eee . 
daho__...... a -. 
WYOMING. ooo eee 
Montana....... a me tcccccmcecmman——. aa. 
California ooo... J 
1 U. 8S. Census reports. 
» The average sugar-beet acreage per farm in 1919 for Idaho as shown in the U. S. Census reports was 
greater by two acres than the average sugar-beet acreage per farm in 1922 on the farms included in this 
investigation.