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The prices per ton as calculated in table 18 are not the actual prices 

 paid but are the prices that would have been paid if no minimum price 

 per ton had been guaranteed. With a minimum price per ton guaranteed, 

 the prices actually paid were higher. The average prices paid on the 50 

 farms in this section on which cost figures were obtained were as follows: 

 Alaska variety, $86.34 per ton; Horsford Market Garden variety, $79.72 

 per ton; Advancer variety, $82.32 per ton. The larger proportion of 

 large-sized peas in the Horsford Market Garden variety resulted in a lower 

 average price per ton than for the Advancer variety. 



The farms with the lower yields received higher average prices per ton 

 (table 19). The higher prices received on the farms which had the lower 

 average yields indicate that a larger proportion of the peas on these farms 

 were of the smaller sizes. However, there were some farms in the higher- 

 yielding groups which produced peas that graded well enough so that the 

 price paid was higher than the guaranteed price. This was true of the 

 farms that had good yields of the Alaska and Advancer varieties. Only 

 one farmer out of ten having a yield of over 2500 pounds of the Horsford 

 Market Garden variety received a premium, while seven farmers out of 

 eleven that had yields of over 2500 pounds of the Advancer variety received 

 higher than the guaranteed price. In order to have the same price per ton 

 for these two varieties, a different scale of prices would be necessary. 



TABLE 19. RELATION BETWEEN YIELD PER ACRE AND PRICE PER TON ON 

 FARMS IN THE ONTARIO AREA, 1920 



* If the amounts paid as guarantees were not included in these returns, the differences in the price per 

 ton between groups would be even greater. 



