124 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 
raised was put to corn, beets and chicory last year; the corn was a good average crop 
of 50 bu or more per acre, the beets were as good as the average of the field, and the 
chicory from this field took first premium at the state fair. I believe that 12 tons can 
be raised every year if the work 1s done properly. The beet crop of ’95 was heavy 
and it was impossible for the factory to receive and store what beets they could not 
work up before they would freeze in the ground or in piles, so they gave the farmer 
about 30c per ton for siloing a portion of their crop and holding it five or six weeks, 
thus giving the factory a chance to take those siloed beets later in the season. This 
same crop furnished a splendid feed of beet tops for milch cows, making the entire 
feed for our 26 head from Oct 1 to Jan 1. They produced an extra flow of milk and 
it tested high at the creamery. An acre of beet tops is worth from $3 to $5 as feed 
for cows and hogs, both of which eat them greedily. ’’ 
Here are some reports from farmers at Chino, Cal, for the seasons of 1891-4 inclu- 
sive: E. M. Day planted 25% acres to beets, from which he harvested 409 tons, for 
which he received $1400. On his home place he had 52 acres, the beets from which 
brought $525, or $91.30 per acre. On another ten acres he harvested 204 tons, which 
brought him $4.50 per ton. This makes the returns for the ten acres $918, or $91.80 
per acre. The $1400 he received for his entire crop was all clear gain, except $40 he 
paid out for wages and $75 for seed and use of cultivator. Himself and two boys, one 
11 and the other 15 years of age, did enough’ work on their own crop and in exchange 
with their neighbors to clear all expenses on their own crop except the $115 noted. 
In other words, Mr Day’s summer work on his beet crop has brought him just $1284 
in clear cash. Besides this, he has taken care of, cut and harvested ten acres of 
alfalfa of his own, raised fourteen acres of barley, and did $50 worth of work cutting 
alfalfa and barley for other people. This will go a long way towards paying all his 
living expenses for the year, and his beet crop can be counted clear gain. Mr Day 
says he lived in Nebraska for twenty-five years and in all his farming experience he 
has never done as well_as he has here, or found the product that paid as well as sugar 
beets. 
George C. Moore rented 36 acres, which he planted to beets. He did the team 
work and a large part of the labor upon the crop himself, hiring no more than he 
could avoid. He is an energetic, painstaking and careful man, and his care has been 
well rewarded. In making a statement of his expenses on the crop, he included his 
own labor and that of his teams. His actual expenses in money were therefore much 
less than the figures given. He sold 649 tons (at $4.25) for $2.758.25; expenses: Plowing 
$72, preparing ground $27, seed $64, planting $12, thinning $108, cultivating $25.20, 
hoeing $70, pulling and topping, $874.50, hauling $299.60, factory expenses $52.45, 
total $1,104.75; rent, 25 per cent, $684.56; grand total, $1,789.31; net profit, $968.94, 
Peter Varner harvested from eighteen acres 360 tons of beets, or twenty tons per 
acre. For these he realized $3.90 per ton, or $1404 for his crop—$78 per acre. Less 
than three years ago Mr Varner came to Chino with no capital whatever but his 
energy, his perseverance and his pluck. He has recently purchased $3000 worth of 
land for a home, and he is paying for it with money realized from beet farming. He 
