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plotc report would, it is believed, contain the names of others whose 

 tonnage and profits would be even greater: 



Total Tons Per Cent. Profit 



Grower. Acres Tons Per acre Sugar Per acre 



Carl Coerber 7.6 95.80 12.74 18 143.00 



M. D. Biehn 4.75 52.99 11.16 19.2 30.00 



B. B. Glass 7. 65.78 9.40 18 21.00 



G.A.Dodds 2.25 24.66 10.96 18.2 30.0C 



E. A. Smith 5 46.34 9.27 20.9 11.05 



C.H.Wills 1.3 11.93 9.17 16.1 39.77 



Nathan Fulmer 4.5 40.60 9.02 18, 23.22 



W. A. Shively 8. 43.64 5.45 16.80 13.00 



W.M.Sylvester 2 30.58 15.29 16 37.40 



Holcomb Cattle Co . 7.3 85.58 11.72 20.4 40.00 



P. O. Pennington 1 9.40 9.40 14.6 30.30 



Lee L. Doty 2 21.66 10.83 16.3 25.50 



N. T. Viers , 1 9.90 9.90 19.2 40.00 



P. N. Meroney . 1 7.18 7.18 16.4 1500 



J.L.Owens... ...1 7.95 7.95 16 11.95 



Averages 3.75 36.93 9.96 17.61 $27.34 



The foregoing statements of "profits per acre" is exclusive of the 

 bounty paid by the state. 



Secretary Coburn adds the following suggestions as to the possi- 

 bilities of an acre of sugar-beets: 



Each square foot producing one beet, an acre should yield 43,560 

 beets. 



At an average weight of two pounds each the product would weigh 

 over 43 tons. 



With an average sugar content of 16 per cent, the factory would 

 pay for these, at present prices, $5 per ton, or $215 per acre. 



The cost of raising these should not, at a high estimate, exceed 

 $35 per ton, leaving a profit of $180. 



The foregoing possibilities might reasonably be called the proba- 

 bilities confronting the average practical farm gardener who engages 

 in sugar-beet production in the region under consideration. Practic- 

 ally all of the sugar beets raised in Kansas last year were grown in the 

 extreme western part of the state in the counties of Kearney, Finney, 

 Hamilton, Gray and Ford, in the upper Arkansas River valley, The 

 content of sugar averages fully as high as in the Colorado district, and 

 experience thus far obtained indicates that both the soil and climate of 

 this great valley are exceptionally well adapted to the production of 

 sugar beets. 



Prices of the best beet lands in the vicinity of Rocky Ford range 

 from $150 to $250 per acre. The best bottom lands whereon the Kan- 

 sas farmers grew their beets are worth, at present selling prices, from 

 $10 to $25 per acre, while second bottom lands adjoining can be had at 

 from $2.50 to $4 per acre, and the surrounding upland, being the finest 

 quality of grazing land, at from $2 to $3 per acre. This condition 

 affords a most favorable opportunity to settlers to engage in mixed 

 farming, which is the most profitable line of agriculture on a safe basis, 

 with the certainty of great profit from the rapid enhancement in the 

 value of lands. ' 



