26 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TABLE 7.—Scope of the investigation of the costs of production of sugar beets, by
the United States Tariff Commission, 1922

Number of farms producing
 sugar beets for
sugar

Acres of sugar beets harvested


Tons of sugar beets harvested


Number
 for | Per- Perwhich
 [centage rentage
a hs, Total (ATE ores
in this [gated is farms) ? gated | oe of
investi-| of total total
zation, in 1919 acreage

State and area

Percentage

that
production
 investi-

 is
of total
production


Total
ini9191

Total  orme
onsen | investiall
 farms ? gated

United States._......__..
Michigan_____. ....__._.1 14,812
Alma-St. Louis...
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Sebewaing... __... _..____.

2, 242

4.7

530, 000 | 54, 875
84.000 | 5, 68%

10.4

5,183,000 1 626, 807
6.81 692,000 54,837

12.1
7.9
87
10.7
13.0

478

3.2

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1, 186
5, 067
9, 78¢
9, 639
9, 157

ly <n
|, 056
934

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Nebraska eo. _____i
Colorado. acooeemao.=Fort
 Collins._.__.... ___
Fort Morgan —____. ._____.
Greeley. .c.p-arns=c==! vane 7]
Rocky Ford_________ ..__._.
Sterling moomoo

3,684 | 145
1,531 200
7,604  3%°

3.9 26,0001 2,023
13.11 55000 | 9,482
7.7 | 148,000 17,063

7.8 © 220,000 -
17.21 703,000
11.5 |1, 466, 000

19, 162
190. 992

10.7
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1 Data are not available for other than census years, therefore the best comparsion that can be made is with
hese data taken from the reports of the Fourteenth U. S. Census.
1 These data were taken from the Year Book 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supplemented by unpublished statistics in the files of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department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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