COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TaBLE 1.—Sugar-beet production in the United States, 1921-1926

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Average
Acreage Quantity) Yield | price per
harvested |harvested| per acre | ton to
grower

{,000
acres
815
530
BL
3.

1,000
short
tons
7,782
5,183
"006
39
t

Short |
tons Dollars
9.6 6.35
9.8 7.91
10.7 RIC
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1.4 6. ¢
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7 51
10. 14
13 99
6.14
Rl
9.25

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488
30

Farm
value

1,000
dollars
49,392
41,017
62, 965
59, 524
47, 059
54, 964

7,851
4,306
3,129
7.175
4,005
3) 411

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2, 279
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11, 521
11, 426
16,276
19, 058
9, 815
23. 050

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6.10
7.22
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¥
7.90
7 00

5. 59
7.79
8.10
7.582
5.97
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2,279
2,262
4,269
1,977
2,846
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7,041
4, 994
8, 282
8, 443
6, 833
5 552

5,093
5,477
5,181
5, 678
5, 574
7 974

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6.05
6. 88
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9.48
6. 90
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1,596
1,512
3, 624
3, 574
2, 945
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£28
6. ©?
8. 05
8.97

10. 49
7 72
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7.08

6,300
8, 519
8, 901
3,875
6, 416
9. 894

7,711
4, 521
8, 303
9, 744
8, 625
9 656

SoURCE.—Yearbook of U. 8. Department of Agriculture, 1926, p. 1003, and records of the Division of
Crop and Livestock Estimates, June and December, 1927