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Those factors wliicli influence the quality of the sugar beet 

 also affect the yield more or less, amono^ which are the variety of 

 beet grown, quality of seed, distance between plants, soil, culti- 

 vation, season, etc. 



In this connection may be considered the amount of pure sugar 

 produced an acre. Using the same so'urces of information as 

 those given above, we have the following table: 



Yield of Pure Sugar P^rom Sugar Beets Grown on One Acre. 



bepoets given by 



1801. 



Pounds. 



Factory at Lehi, Utah 1,162 



Chino ' Factory, !Southeru 



Californiii j 1,510 



German factories I 



1892. 



Pounds. 

 1,227 



1,680 



1893. 



Pounds. 

 1,719 



2,621 

 3,276 



1(94. 



Pounds. 

 2,3:56 



2,198 

 3,149 



1895. 



Pound a 

 2,539 



2,670 

 3,514 



Arerage. 



Pounds. 

 1,797 



2,136 

 3,313 



It is a matter of much interest to note that the jield of sugar 

 an acre increased quite rapidly from year to year in the Utah and 

 California factories. This was due not only to an increase in 

 yield of beets, but to an increase in the per cent of sugar and co- 

 eflScient of purity. 



Taking the averages obtained by our analyses and assuming the 

 average yield of marketable beet roots to be 10 tons an acre, we 

 estimate that, under these conditions, there would be a yield of 

 about 2,400 pounds of commercial sugar. 



IV. COST OF RAISING AND TRANSPORTING CROP. 



Numerous factors enter into the cost of raising sugar beets and 

 these will vary in different places. Among such factors may be 

 mentioned the value of land, the cost of labor and the extent 

 to which hand labor and machine labor are employed. Some of 

 the details of this subject are discussed hereinafter, when data 

 are given derived from actual experience in raising beets on the 

 Station farm. It may be regarded as a conservative estimate to 

 place the price at which beets can be grown in New York under 

 favorable conditions between the limits of $40 and |50 an acre. 



The cost of transporting the crop from the farm to the factory 



