SCOPE AND REPRESENTATIVENESS OF THE 
INVESTIGATION 
TasLe 1.—Scope of the investigation of the costs of production of sugar beets by 
the United States Tariff Commission. 1922 
Farms producing sugar 
beets for sugar 
Acres of sugar beets | 
harvested 
Tons of sugar beets 
harvested 
Num- Per 
ber for cent- 
which age 
cost that 
data |number 
vereob-|of farms 
tained | investi- 
in this | gated 
‘nvesti-| is of 
gation, | total 
1922 lin 1919 
Per 
cent 
age 
that 
acres 
investi- 
gated 
is of 
total 
acres 
Per 
cent- 
age 
that 
produc- 
tion in- 
7estiga- 
ted is 
of total 
produc- 
tion 
12.1 
7.9 
8.7 
19.7 
13.0 
State and area 
Total 
num- 
ber, 
19191 
Total 
acre- 
age, 
all 
farms 2 
Acre- 
age of 
farms 
nvesti-, 
gated 
Total 
ons, all 
farms 2 
Tons 
on 
farms 
invest. 
gated 
United States ......__...| 47,211 
Michigan...... .__.....] 14,812 
Alma-St. ls 
Bay City ooo. i 
BHO mss mmm mms - 
OWO0SS0. cco = # 
Sebewaing.._........ 
OhiO. eee! 3,174 
Nebraska ..._..__..._..| 1,531! 
Colorado...ooeeocno..l 7,604 
Fort Collins. ooceeees|caa 
Fort Morgan_- 2.212]. 7200 
areeley. coool. 
Rocky Ford........|-- Ca 
Sterling. oeoeeoee 
....l 8398 
2,242 1 4.7 
“476 
' 530,000 ' 54,875 | 10.4 
5, 183, 000 '426, 807 
3.2 
84, 000 
5, 685 
‘G2 O0Nn 
£4 837 
01 
8 
1, .: 
lb. 
Leo? 
, 05¢ 
34 
| 
18¢ 
6, 
23 
157 
26. 000 
2 022 
NNN) 
19. 162 
of, 
55, 000 
9 
TIE 
703.000 1138, 456 
1. 4R6. 000 1190. 992 
Fo" 
148, 000 
17 0A: 
10.7 
6.5 
27.3 
14.6 
15.4 
1 Data are not available for other than census years; therefore the best comparison that can be made 
is with these data taken from the reports of the Fourteenth United States Census. 
2 These data were taken from the Yearbook 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supplemented by unpublished statistics in the files of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the 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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