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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 that 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 caneaninge the rental value would have 
varied in the same way. i -.! 
Moorhouse! and his sae 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. The 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. Uta AND IDAHO 
10 Tons or Lzss 11 ro 15 Tons ||16 Tons anp OvEeR 
Per Per | 9] Per Per 
Acre | Ton s &| Acre | Ton 
No. of 
Farms 
5g Per | Per 
| Acre | Ton 
a 
10 acres or less 12 |$62.59 |$8.65 || 17 |$72.47 |$5.53 || 29 [$75.70 |$4.12 
11 to 20 acres .|/14| 59.04 | 6.69 |/24 | 66.87 | 5.01 ||32 | 71.81 | 3.93 
21 acres and over |} 8} 60.20 | 6.22 ]118 | 64.70 | 4.85 |/19 | 70.19 | 4.02 
1 Correspondence with the author. Also see U. S. Dept. of 
Agr., Bul. No. 693 for additional figures, 
