Cost of Producing Beets 249 
In many districts farmers maintain that the cost of 
producing an acre of beets is over $100. This is prob- 
ably much more than the farmer ordinarily spends, and 
includes every expenditure that would be made in pro- 
ducing a maximum crop. The farmer does not of course 
commonly go to this amount of trouble and expense ; he 
is usually satisfied to do a moderate amount of work and 
to secure an acre-yield somewhere near the average. 
No accurate figures have been compiled for the cost of 
producing a ton of beets or for producing the beets neces- 
sary to make one hundred pounds of sugar. This phase 
of the cost of beet production deserves more attention on 
the part of students of beet-sugar economics. 
