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The Sugar-Beet in America 



Table XV. — Relation of Acreage and Yield per Acre 

 TO Cost per Acre and per Ton. Colorado 



The relation between size of farm, area of beets planted, 

 and labor income on 276 Utah farms is shown in Table 

 XVI. The table shows that the labor income of farmers 

 raising sugar-beets is higher than that of farmers not 

 raising them. This is probably due as much to secondary 

 profits, discussed in Chapter XII, as to direct returns 

 from beets. On the average the yield was slightly higher 

 on the medium-sized farms than on the very large or the 

 very small ones. 



COST BASED ON TIME 



Because the prices paid for labor vary so much in dif- 

 ferent regions, it is impossible to give money costs that 

 apply to all conditions. The length of time required in 

 performing the various operations should be approxi- 

 mately the same. This offers a means of securing definite 

 figures which may be computed for each region by using 

 the price of man and horse labor that prevails. 



