84 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TaBLe 56.—Interest rates paid in 1922 on the mortgages on the sugar-beet farms
wnvestigated +n the United States

Aras

United States. ...

MACIEEIIL. cn mmm smn mmm mmm mm ww
Ohio. ...... .. # Whew WE
Nebraska. ......- Frm ies
Colorado. ...

Average interest
 rates
paid on
farm mortgages


Per cent
17.14

6. 3¢

71

Areas

Utah. eee
[6 FY + Uo JSON
wyoming. oo... JR
Zontana. «ccececaco——nan
Jalifornis

Average interest
 rates
paid on
farm mortgages


Per cent
7. 501
7. 80
7.76
7.43
7. 46

1 Weighted on the basis of the total acreage of sugar beets harvested in the 9 States investigated.

TABLE 57.—Returns for capital, management, and labor other than contract and
tractor operations

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

Amount by
which the
returns
rom sugar
beets exceed
 the
Josts of pro-Juction,
 ex:
clusive of
capital
‘harges, the
costs of all
direct labor
sn machine
operations,
and all indirect
 labor
costs

Gross returns
 for
apital and
management
 as expressed
 in
yercentages
of total
capital 1
smployed
in sugarbeet
 production


Value of
and and
other
rgDital

Hours of
abor other
than contract
 and
tractor
operation

ArOSs returns
 for
bor,} capi
tal, and
management


TOSS resurns
 for
bor ! and
management


Area and year

2)

(3)

4)

(5)

(8)

6)

Cents per
hour of lahor
 OT ThEshine
 operations
 and
indireet
lar

Cents per
hour of lahor
 ON Mathine
 operations
 and
indirect
labor
4 36.€
-2.7
46.1
76.2

Per cent
$6.81
—-. 7)
9.32
16.67
1.91
-7.11
5.16
12. 80:
37.9 6.41
5 =-13.1 —1,79
Ys 30.0 5.21
108.5 81.6 . 14.39
1 Labor other than contract labor and the labor of operating the tractors. It is therefore the labor on mashine
 operations and the indirect labor.
1 See Table 51 and footnotes to Tables 49 and 50. .
3 These figures were obtained by dividing those in column 4 by those in column 3.
« These figures were obtained by subtracting from those in column 4 the capital charges per acre of beets
harvested as shown in Table 53, and dividing the result by the hours per acre as shown in column 3. .
§ These figures were obtained by subtracting from those in column 4 the direct labor costs on machine
operations and indirect labor costs per acre, as shown in Table 17, and dividing the result by the walue of
land and other capital per acre, as shown in column 2.

Hours per
acre