20 | "COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS

TasLe 5.—Comparison of the average sugar content of the sugar beets included
in the investigation with the average sugar content of all beets grown in the
couniry

SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY 8TATES, 1921, 1922, AND 1923

J —————————

Sugar content of a
ton of sugar beets

Amount
by which
the sugar
ontent of
the sugar
heets included

in the
investigation

exceeds
he sugar
content
of all
sugar
beets
nroduced

Sugar content of a
ton of sugar beets

Amount
by which
the sugar
ontent of
the sugar
beets in-2luded

in the
investigation

exceeds
he sugar
«ontent
of all
sugar
beets
sroduced

Area and year

Average
Average ; of those
of all |included
beets in the
sroduced! investigation


Area and vear

Average
of all
beets |
sroduced

Average
of those
(ncluded
in the
investigation


United States:
All States—
3-year average...
1921...
1922. ceo
1928. eee
States investigated—

3-year average..
1921. coos
1922. u_--1923.
 _..__.

Pounds
per ton
310. 7
215. 4
308. &
2086. &

Pounds
per ton

Pounds
Der ton

Colorado:
3-year average...)
- 1821..nue-l
1922. oo
1923. cca
Utah:
3-year average__-1921.
 ceo
1022.00 mmmm
1928. cumin
Idaho: 1
3-year average. .:
1921...
1922 ae
1923. ooo
Wyoming:
3-year average. .|
1921... mucnne
1922...
1923 _.--Montana:

3-year average...
TOL nmmmn
1928. isms
1523...
-lifcrnia:

Pounds Pounds
per ton per ton
300. 7 299. 2
313.2 314.1
293.2 291. 6
291.8 287.7
319.0
224, 2
320. 1
312. 5

Pounds
per ton
~15
.9
-16
—4.1
—3.1
—6.2
-2.1
-.7

311, 6
318.0
308. 9
306. 4

312.1
318.9
308. 3
307. 2

0.5
.9
-. 6
R

Michigan:
3-year average..
1921...
1922...
1923. .o...
Ohio:
3-year average...
192. vu annsn
1022 uinan
1923 ____...
Nebraska:
3-year average...
1921. oo.
1922...
1922.

335.7
349.0
331. €
327.8
329.1
50
Dah "
211 |

40. 7
pre

5.0
6.6
3.7
4 4

284. 2
265, 6
287. 6
305. 8

284. 7
264.3
283. 6
12. 2

-
1.9
.9
-2 5

274.2

77.¢

ok
oy

na

0
0
0
a

8.9
9.3
5.4
10. 6

la.

"1 The amount of sugar extracted per ton of sugar beets harvested on the farms included in the investigation
 is unusually high for Idaho, because a large percentage of the beets were manufactured into
sugar at the Twin Falls plant. which emplovs the Steffents process.

NoTE —The data for all farms and all beets produced were taken from the 1923 Yearbook of the Department
 of Agriculture and supplementary data furnished by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, with
permission of the companies concerned. The data for the farins investigated were obtained in the field
and suppleinented by data furnished by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
The 3-year averages in all cases are weighted averages. 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 indicates that the average sugar content per ton of beets harvested on all farms was
greater than the average sugar content per ton of beats harvested on the farms investigated.