COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 29
In like manner Table 10, below, showing higher average yields per
acre of sugar beets on the farms investigated than on all farms in any
State, may mean that the farms for which cost data were obtained are
hetter or are operated by more efficient farmers.
TABLE 10.— Comparison of ytelds of sugar beets per acre for the farms tnvestigated
with the average vields of sugar beets for all farms
Btate and yield
United States:
All States—
3-vear average.
1921. ___....
1922____....
1923 __._._.
Rtates investi-
gated—
3-year average. _|
1921... __.
102 cine
1923. ___.
Michigan:
3-year average. .
51 a NE
1922________
1923_______.
Ohio:
3-vear average...
202) cdi ms
1922___.___.
923
Nebraska:
3-year average._.|
| LA S.
1922 ____._.
1923...
Average yields of
sugar beets
For all
(Arms as
epasen For the
1923 farms in-
“earbook tHided in
of the vestiga-
Depart- tion
nent of
\gricul-
ture
fons per
cre
En
Tons per
nere
0.12
o 67
6.91
a QR
11. 46
11. 01
11. 32
12 16
1
9.39
9.18
9.65
Q. 47
on
9. 60
9.03
9.47
0. 15
Excess of
vield for
farms
nvesti-
zated
over
yields for
all farms
growing
heets
Tons per
nlere
1.34
1.34
1 41
1. 28
1.38
1.38
1.42
1 26
84
ng
4
State and yield
Colorado:
3-year average...
1921...._...
1922 ___.__.
TOR. cis
Utah:
3-vear average. .
1921__.___..
1922...
1923. cn cin
Idaho:
3-year average...
1921...
1922...
10923, cuit
Wyoming:
3-year average. .
1921 __..__
1922 _._.._.
1923...___..
Montana:
3-year average...
1921 __.____
1922 _.._...
1923___.__..
“alifornia:
3-vear average.__
1921 _._.._.
1922... ....
1923... __
Average yields of
sugar beets
For all
farms as
reported
in the
1923
Y earbook
of the
Depart-
ment of
Agricul-
ture
For the
farms in
luded in
this in-
vestiga-
tion
Tons per
sere
12.21
11.39
fo?
Tons per
acre
12. 51
12. 97
11.19
13. 15
15
11. 36
10. 26
1% 26
12. 91
13.37
12. 31
13. 08
14 ]RK
10. 70
9.18
11. 59
11.68
10. 15
8 Ae
14.17
11.06
13. 84
11.72
14. 63
15. 43
11. 61
10. 73
12. 19
11 82
In °C
Oo
12.40
11.87
1.68
13. 22
% 64
© 55
85
R44
Excess of
yield for
farms
investi-
gated
over
yields for
all farms
growing
beets
Tons per
acre
0.30
1.58
1.26
1.00
2.01
2.05
1.79
1. 97
3.14
2.54
3.04
3.78
1.46
2.07
-1. 98
.78
1.71
2.68
. 66
2.10
.04
-. 12
.45
-—.058
Nore.—A minus sign (—) preceding a figure indicates that the average yields on all farms exceed the
average vields on the farms investicated bv that smount.
Table 11 (p. 30) shows that for the three years 1921 to 1923 the
average sugar content of the beets grown in the representative areas
of the States investigated was greater by one-half a pound per ton
of beets harvested than the average sugar content for all beets grown
in the nine States visited and higher by 1.4 pounds per ton than the
average for all beets grown in the 17 sugar-beet producing States.