COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
85 
TABLE 57.— Returns for capital, management, and labor other than contract and 
tractor overations— Continued 
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921, 
1922. AND 1923——continued 
Area’and year 
Nebraska: 
3-year average... —___.__. 
1928 eee 
1922 oo... 
1923__ 
Colorado: 
3-year average _.._____ ___ 
921... mmr ome 
1922____. em ————- 
1923 __ 
Utah: 
3-year average... . .__. 
1921... J 
1922 ee 
1923 ee 
[daho: 
3-vear average o.oo. 
I ie cmm———- 
32 
1923...- _— 
Wyoming: 
3-year average_.__._. 
1921... 
1922. ___. 
1923__. 
Montana: 
3-year average 
192) ce 
1922 
1923 
California: 
3-vear avera 
21 __. 
Ie ° 
092% 
Value of 
and and 
other 
*gnital 
Pl 
Per acre 
5206 
224 
200 
190 
221 
231 
226 
205 
244 
274 
249 
| OR 
232 
264 
232 
201 
58 
7F 
Hours of 
abor other 
‘han con- 
Tact and 
tractor 
wperation 
« 
a); 
Hours per 
acre 
55.6 
54.8 
59.1 
53.2 
30. 7 
61.2 
58. & 
99 1 
30. 4 
59.2 
60. 2 
62.3 
73. 4 
61.1 
64. 3 
35.92 
Amount by 
which the 
returns 
Tom sugar 
oeets ex- 
ceed the 
osts of pro-| 
{uction, ex- 
clusive of 
capital | 
‘harges, the 
costs of all | 
direct Jabor 
on machine 
Jperations, 
and all in- | 
lirect labor! 
n0sts 
(4) 
Per acre 
347.61 
2% 22 
72 
5.74 
2.51 
ne 
1c 
-. 97 
6 AE 
50. 76 
51. 38 
46. 28 
11.84 
A" A] 
io! 
Gross re- 
turns for 
abor, capi: 
tal, and 
nanage- 
ment 
(8) 
Cents per 
hour of la- 
hor on ma- 
chine oper- 
ations and 
indirect 
labor 
85.6 
51.5 
19.7 
Q3 + 
63. 4 
49. 1 
en (J 
60.3 
la 6 
84.4 
QR & 
73.0 
19.4 
100. 2 
105 R 
2.1 
JT0SS re- 
turns for 
abor and 
manage- 
ment 
(6) 
Cents per 
hour of la- 
hor on ma- 
shine oper- 
ations and 
indirect 
labor 
59.6 
22.6 
95.8 
68.3 
37.1 
21.7 
32.0 
AQ 8 
30.9 
~19.3 
54.2 
75.5 
47.5 
'0.8 
5.0 
4 4 
A 
Gross re- 
turns for 
capital and 
manage- 
ment as exs 
pressed in 
Jercentages 
of total 
capital 
:mployed 
in sugar- 
beet pro- 
duction 
™N 
Per cent 
14.28 
4.80 
26.20 
16.22 
8.48 
4.25 
7.69 
15.08 
6.30 
—4.03 
12.41 
19.99 
10. 46 
~3.34 
18.59 
22.53 
6.97 
~2.70 
6.53 
15. 53 
18. 08 
~. 40 
29.99 
26 
01 
95 
43 
wv. 43 
Nore.—The figures in column 2 were taken from Table 51, those in column 3 from Table 43, and those 
in column 4 are derived from Table 17. All minus signs (—) indicate that the costs, as caleu}ated for use 
in this table, were greater than the returns hv the amannts chown