50 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
Table 20 summarizes the findings of the cost investigation con- 
cerning the relation between the yield of sugar beets per acre and 
the costs of production per acre and per ton in 1922. With an 
increase in the yield per acre, the general trend of acre costs is up- 
ward as would be expected, but the trend of net costs per ton inclu- 
sive of capital charges is downward. This holds true until an aver- 
age yield per farm of from 21 to 22 tons per acre is reached. 
TABLE 20.—Relation of yield of sugar beets to costs of production per acre and per ton 
UNITED STATES—SUMMARY FOR THE NINE STATES INVESTIGATED, 1922 
Net costs 
Yield per acre (tons) 
2-7 nr 
5-5, 
BR ¥ 
r 
1 
Number 
of farms 
10 
2 
A 
Acreage of sugar 
beets harvested 
Average 
Total per fren 
148.0 
970. 0 
754.6 
1,464.2 
2, 515. 6 
2,785.0 
1699.7 
858.7 
929. 
8. 
9.4 
ry 
4d 
49. & 
97.0 
31. & 
26, ¢ 
fo 
I'otal 
sons of 
sugar 
beets 
arvested’ 
426.7 
3,417.1 
3,324.8 
7,962.7 
16, 318. § 
™ 575. 1 
SH 
ny 
pr 
Per acre | Per ton 
txclusive! Inclusive | Exclusive Inclusive 
of capital of capital; of capital| of capital 
charges | charges charges | charges 
$73.18 
59.97 
64. 89 
61.29 
57.57 
¢0. 08 
63.99 
63.31 
"4 48 
Tt 14 
92 
“16 
“30 
77 
ng 
$91.12 
72.86 
80. 51 
76. 7¢ 
73.8% 
72.02 
30.70 
78.13 
79.5. 
30. 8&7 
32.6 
24.9% 
22 BC 
', 98 
. 16 
TT 9 
¢ 
$25. 38 
17.02 
14.73 
11.27 
8.87 
8.13 
7- 
2 
$31. 60 
22.39 
18.27 
14.10 
11.39 
9.88 
9, 52 
3.22 
To 
7.08 
6.71 
1 
6.01 
5. 67 
5.39 
5.67 
5.44 
5.01 
5.06 
4.97 
3.90 
5.40 
8.60 
4,81 
7.15 
IR 
4a 
5. 13 
‘0 
o 
- 
aw 
a 
168. 24 
. OL 
NoTE.~Data for 2 farms investigated where the crop was a total failure are excluded from this tabulation.