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Identifikator:: 1795100052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179691

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Idaho

Edition:: [Rev. ed.]

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: VII, 80 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Report on the farmers' costs of production of sugar beets in Idaho for the years of 1921. 1922, and 1923

Collection:: Economics Books

COSTS OF PRODUCTION OF SUGAR BEETS Part VI.—IpDAHO REPORT ON THE FARMERS’ COSTS OF PRODUCTION OF SUGAR BEETS IN IDAHO FOR THE YEARS OF 1921, 1922, AND 1923 HISTORY OF THE INVESTIGATION On December 19, 1922, two months after the tariff act of 1922 became effective, the Mountain States Beet Growers’ Association, representing the sugar-beet producers of Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming, made formal request to the Tariff Com- mission for an investigation of the costs, returns, and economic con- ditions in the sugar-beet industry. Their request was vigorously supported by the sugar-beet producers of other States. Because of the significance of sugar-beet production in the sugar industry of the United States, the commission, on August 7, 1923, voted: * that an investigation under the general powers of the commission is hereby instituted on the cost of production of sugar beets; that the cooperation Of the Department of Agriculture in such investigation is invited; and that the advisory board be directed to draft a plan for the conduct of the investigation, if practicable, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture. In accordance with this action the advisory board submitted plans for the investigation which were approved by the commission on August 14, 1923, and this report represents in part the results of that Investigation. The direct field investigation of farm costs was begun on September $, 1923, at Owosso, Mich., and was completed at Santa Ana, Calif., four months later, January 4, 1924. The investigation has required about 4,200 days of man labor, 1,270 days of field work in collecting the data from the farmers, and 2,930 days devoted to calculations and tabulations. In all, 78 persons, excluding the farmers who gave information on their costs and returns, have taken part in the inves- sigation—20 in the field and 58 in the office. The 20 field agents traveled a total of about 86,000 miles by train and in the course of the investigation covered thoroughly by automobile the sugar-beet producing districts in the nine States investicated. aks DESCRIPTION OF THE SUGAR-BEET CROP AND THE CULTURAL OPERA- TIONS EMPLOYED IN ITS PRODUCTION The sugar-beet plant (Beta vulgaris or B. vulgaris) by its remark- able organizing capacity takes from nature substances that would otherwise be unused and by combining them creates the useful prod- uct sugar. Producing and storing this valuable food, the sugar-beet plant is the foundation upon which rests the whole beet-sugar indus- try. The manufacturing processes—extracting, purifying, crystal- izing, and refining—necessary in the preparation of sugar for the use of man are carried on in the beet-sugar factories. Because of the

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