AMERICAN BEET SUGAR. 53 



SECOND INSTANCE. 



COST PER ACRE. 



Hauling and laborers $ 1 50 



Seed 1 62 



Planting 1 50 



Plowing 1 50 



Hoeing 5 00 



Cultivating 2 00 



Harvesting 9 00 



Hauling 10 25 



Total. $32 37 



YIELD. 



Tons 11.25 



Per ton $ 4 50 



Total .; $50 62 



Minus expenses '. 32 37 



Profit $18 25 



RECORD OF A CROP OFF 40 ACRES THAT PAID $30 PER ACRE NET PROFIT 



IN NEBRASKA. 

 EXPENSES. PROCEEDS. 



Seed $ 107 00 577% tons at $5 #2888 33 



Hand work at $13 per acre 48000 46>^ tons at $2.50 11583 



Topping beets at $3 per acre 12000 Siloed 77 34 



Freight at 80c per ton 538 40 



Extra hand labor 15400 Total $3081 50 



Less expense 139940 



Total $1399 40 



Balance for team work, use of land and net profit $1682 10 



The above are all actual experiences of beet farmers. 



IN STORING BEETS WHEN FROST COMPELS HARVESTING AT A STATED PER- 

 IOD, there are various methods of constructing silos. The entire subject is an al- 

 most untried field, and we will not advise, except in cases where we know the 

 temperature to be expected, and this must be done by correspondence. Mr. 

 Cutler of the Lehi factory writes : 



NEW METHOD OF STORING BEETS. When this factory was first built, we 

 erected five frost-proof beet sheds, which were made of lumber, walls lined with 

 straw. They are five hundred feet long and twenty-six feet wide, constructed 

 with a sluice in the center, so that the beets can be shoveled into it and brought 

 to the factory by water, which is not only economy but it gives them a thorough 

 washing. 



We have discovered since then, that frost is something we are not afraid of, 

 providing that our beets are brought here in a perfect state. We have erected 

 since then several platforms, one of which has sides to it, but the top is left en- 

 tirely open. It is five hundred feet long by thirty-four feet wide, and will hold 

 fully 3000 tons of beets. We also have other platforms with a sluice in the 

 center, but without any sides, and we use a movable railroad track as fast as the 

 beets are unloaded, the track is moved farther out, until we have an enormous pile 

 resting on the plank or platform as above described. 



