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ness of the farm decreased, but the acres of beets grown 

 increased as the profitableness of the farm increases. 

 Therefore, the only conclusion that may be drawn from 

 these data is tliat both good and poor farmers grow large 

 and small acreages of beets. It is regretted that the rental 

 value of the land was not taken in the survey, because 

 this, it is thought, would modify considerably the results 

 on this point, as the size of the farms varied considerably 

 in the different districts and the rental value would have 

 varied in the same way. ■ 



Moorhouse ^ and his associates in the Office of Farm 

 Management, United States Department of Agriculture, 

 have obtained some interesting figures on the relation of 

 acreage and yield to costs. Tlie results are given in 

 Tables XIV and XV. 



These figures show that in each of the areas under in- 

 vestigation the yield to the acre exerted a very important 

 influence on the cost of producing a ton of beets. 



Table XIV. — Relation of Acreage and Yield per Acre 

 TO Cost per Acre and per Ton. Utah and Idaho 



' Correspondence with the author. Also see U. S. Dept. of 

 Agr., Bui. Xo. 693 for additional figures. 



