SCOPE AND REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE
INVESTIGATION

TasLe 1.—Scope of the investigation of the costs of production of sugar beets by
the United States Tariff Commission. 1922

Farms producing sugar
beets for sugar

Acres of sugar beets |
harvested

Tons of sugar beets
harvested

Num- Per
ber for centwhich
 age
cost that
data |number
vereob-|of farms
tained | investiin
 this | gated
‘nvesti-| is of
gation, | total
1922 lin 1919

Per
cent
age
that
acres
investigated

is of
total
acres

Per
centage

that
production
 in-7estiga-

 is
of total
production

12.1
7.9
8.7
19.7
13.0

State and area

Total
number,

19191

Total
acreage,

all
farms 2

Acreage
 of
farms
nvesti-,
gated

Total
ons, all
farms 2

Tons
on
farms
invest.
gated

United States ......__...| 47,211
Michigan...... .__.....] 14,812
Alma-St. ls
Bay City ooo. i
BHO mss mmm mms -
OWO0SS0. cco = #
Sebewaing.._........
OhiO. eee! 3,174
Nebraska ..._..__..._..| 1,531!
Colorado...ooeeocno..l 7,604
Fort Collins. ooceeees|caa
Fort Morgan_- 2.212]. 7200
areeley. coool.
Rocky Ford........|-- Ca
Sterling. oeoeeoee
....l 8398

2,242 1 4.7
“476

' 530,000 ' 54,875 | 10.4

5, 183, 000 '426, 807

3.2

84, 000

5, 685

‘G2 O0Nn

£4 837

01
8

1, .:
lb.
Leo?
, 05¢
34

|

18¢
6,

23
157

26. 000

2 022

NNN)

19. 162

of,

55, 000

9

TIE

703.000 1138, 456
1. 4R6. 000 1190. 992

Fo"

148, 000

17 0A:

10.7
6.5
27.3
14.6
15.4
1 Data are not available for other than census years; therefore the best comparison that can be made
is with these data taken from the reports of the Fourteenth United States Census.
2 These data were taken from the Yearbook 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supplemented by unpublished statistics in the files of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the
Department of Agriculture that were furnished with permission of the companies concerned.

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