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COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS

Through improvement in machinery and processes, much gain accrued
in the average extraction of sugar from beets. The average extraction
for the five-year period 1909-1913 was 12.6 per cent, and the average
for the five-year period 1921-1925 was 13.8. On the other hand, the
average sugar content of the beets during that period slightly declined.
TABLE 3.-—Acreage and production of sugar beets and quantity of beet sugar made in
) the United States 1909—1926

Beets worked in
factories 3

Calendar year

LW oe crmcrcreeeer cannes
IR co cre mi SH
Meee eee em———-I
 rmemoea———

Factories
in |
nperation

Number
6
(

ll

me

Sugar
made

Average
extraction
 |

1,000
short tons| Per cent
512 12. 5¢
510 17 RY
599 I &
693 W 20
723 12. 8¢
a 1& 6:
+4
5
8
761
726
1, 089
1,020
675
881
1,090
913
897

Average |—
sugar
content 2? |
Quantity

1,000
Per cent | short tonsi
16. 10 4,081
16.35 1, 047
LE. 89 "a2
¢ 31 4
TOR -

04

«v3
6, 782

Average
price
for beets
per ton

Ares
upon
which
roduced

1,000
acres
120

Dollars

5. 50
6.82
5. 69
5.45
5. 67
6. 12
. 7.39
3 10. 00
5¢7 11.74
37 11.63
815 6.38
530 7.21
657 8.99
817 7.95
653 . 6.39
687 .

Percentage of sucrose actually extracted by factories.
Based upon weight of beets.
Beets used by the factories.
SOURCE: Reports of U. S. Department of Agriculture,