30 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TasLE 11.—Comparison of the average sugar content of the sugar beets included in 
the tnvestigation with the average sugar content of all beets grown in the country 
SUMMARY FOR UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 1922, 
AND 1923 
State and year 
United States: 
All States— 
3-year average.. 
1921... _. 
1922... __. 
1923... 
States investi- 
gated— 
3-year average... 
1921. ___. 
1922... 
1923... 
Michigan: 
3-year average. 
1921___.___. 
1922... _. 
1923... 
Ohio: 
3-year average.. 
192) ...onnus 
1922 ___._. 
1923... ... 
Nebraska: 
3-year average._. 
1021. nn 
1022, niin 
1923 ____.__. 
Sugar content of a 
ton of sugar beets 
Average 
of all 
beets 
pro- 
duced 
Average 
of those 
included 
in the 
investi- 
gation 
Pounds 
per ton 
310. 
315. - 
308." 
3086. & 
Pounds 
per ton 
311.6 
318.0 | 
308. 9 
306. 4 
312.1 
318.9 
308.3 
307.2 
284. 2 
265. 6 
287. 6 
305. 8 
284.7 
264.3 
283.6 
312.2 
274.3 
268. 2 
293.0 
267. 8 
277. 8 
272 « 
2C0 
2v 
307.1 
332.0 
295.8 
289. 6 
306. 4 
330.9 
205.0 
290.0 
Amount 
Hy which 
“he sugar 
sontent 
of the 
sugar 
beets 
neluded 
in the 
investi- 
zation ex 
ceeds the 
sugar 
content 
of all 
sugar 
beets 
pro- 
duced 
Pounds 
per ton 
0.5 
ol 
—.6 
.8 
State and year 
Colorado: 
3-year average.__ 
1921... .__. 
1922... 
. 1923. _._... 
Utah: 
3-year average._. 
1921... .._ 
1922. _______ 
1923......onu 
{daho:1? 
3-year average.. 
1921. ____. 
1922________ 
1923... 
Wyoming: 
3-year average.__ 
192L...cunus 
1922. _____.. 
1923__._._. 
Montana: 
3-year average._. 
1921... 
1922... _... 
1923. .ounua 
California: 
3-year average. 
1921... 
1922... 
1923. cae. 
Sugar content of a 
ton of sugar beets 
A Verage 
of all 
2eets 
pro- 
duced 
A Verage 
of those 
ncluded 
in the 
mvesti- 
zation 
rounds 
per ton 
390.7 
3.2 
“3.4 
MLR 
Pounds 
per ton 
299. 2 
314.1 
291.6 
287.7 
319.0 
324.2 
320.1 
312.5 
299.1 
), 4 
co 
s 
335.7 
"3.0 
21.6 
“re 
340.7 
355.6 
335.3 
332.2 
329.1 
F 
339. & 
11 
398. 2 
352. 6 
340. 2 
307. 5 
320.6 
350. 2 
335.6 
313.8 
370.8 
365.3 
375.0 
377.6 
367. 0 
Amount 
0y which 
he sugar 
sontent 
of the 
sugar 
beets 
neluded 
in the 
investi- 
zation ex- 
reeds the 
sugar 
zontent 
of all 
sugar 
beets 
pro- 
duced 
Pounds 
per ton 
—~1.5 
.9 
~1.6 
—4.1 
—-3.1 
—6.2 
-2.1 
—-.7 
5.0 
6.6 
3.7 
4.4 
-.9 
1.9 
.9 
—3.0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
8.9 
9.3 
5.4 
10.6 
+ The pounds of sugar extracted per ton of sugar beets harvested on the farms included in the investi- 
gation is unusually high in Idaho because a large percentage of the beets were manufactured into sugar 
at the Twin Falls plant, which employs the Steffens process. 
Note.—The data for all farms and all beets produced were taken from the 1923 Yearbook of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture and supplementary data furnished by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics with 
permission of the companies concerned. The data for the farms investigated were obtained in the field and 
supplemented by data furnished by the Bureau of Agricultural Economies. } 
All the three-year averages are weighted. The sugar content for each year and each State was weighted 
by the total tons of sugar beets produced in that State. 
“A minus (—) sign indiates that the average sugar content per ton of beets harvested on all farms was 
creater than the average sugar content per ton of beets harvested on the farms investigated. 
Table 12 (p. 31) shows that the three-year average of sugar ex- 
tracted from a ton of beets for the country as a whole was 258 pounds, 
while for the nine States covered by the investigation it was 260.5 
pounds, or 2.5 pounds per ton in favor of the specified nine States. 
The table further shows that there were on the average 3.4 more 
pounds of sugar extracted per ton of sugar beets grown in. the area 
investigated than on all farms in the nine States in which the investi- 
ration was made. It may therefore be deduced that 5.9 pounds,