GROWING SUGAR BEETS IK UTAH AND IDAHO. 
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men. There were 89 men who produced sugar beets at a cost of 
$4.50 per ton or iess, while 84 men raised sugar beets at a cost of $5 
or more. The average cost for all farms was $4.64 per ton. The 
factories in these two districts paid from $4.85 to $5 per ton for 
sugar beets during the years 1914 and 1915. 
3' It may be well to repeat, for the sake of emphasis, that the growers 
who produced the highest average yield per acre had the lowest cost 
per ton, whereas the men who obtained the lowest average yield had 
the highest cost per ton recorded against the crop. The yield per acre 
has a direct bearing upon the cost per ton. 
On practically every farm there are places where the field work 
can be put upon a more efficient basis. Every grower is willing to 
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concede that some slight change in present operations would probably 
be a step in the direction of greater crop yields. It has been pointed 
out that the sugar beet is not always grown in the regular cropping 
system. Continuous culture may, therefore, be holding down the 
yields; in other oases, a lack of fertility may be the controlling factor, 
although in all of these districts nearly every grower gave consid- 
erable attention to the application of farm manure. Inadequate 
preparation of soil or careless seeding may give poor stands. This 
precludes the possibility of a good yield. Furthermore, the blocking 
and thinning may be done in such a way as to interfere seriously 
with the stand. These are points which should be kept in mind 
throughout the season, and if there are weak places in the present 
methods of farm management, these should be corrected as far as 
possible. 
