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ling. This matter and the taking of sample beets to the 
factoryTefore digging, to ascertain if ripe, are uncertain 
items of expense. It is assumed that any beets raised, that 
were not of proper sugar content or purity, would be worth 
the factory price in Colorado for feed for cattle, sheep or 
hogs. The figures are made uniformly $4 per ton for the 
beets, as representing probable conditions here. The 
Nebraska growers received $5 per ton, one year, under a 
bounty law. The Utah growers were paid $4.25 per ton in 
1896 and are to receive that price this year. 
NORFOLK FACTORY. 
The 1 16 beet growers, whose figures were obtained 
around Norfolk, claimed to have grown 1941 acres of beets 
of beets in 1897. The average yield given me was 9.4 tons 
(which at $4 per ton gives $37.60) average cost per acre 
$26.56, and average profit per acre $i 1.04, above all expenses, 
including delivery of beets to factory, rental, etc. This 
covers yields of from five tons to fifteen tons per acre and 
net results from a loss of $7.55 per acre to a profit of $29 
per acre. 
Believing in conservative figures, we think the yield to 
have been actually about eight tons average per acre there 
for 1897, while the average cost per acre may be put at $30, 
and the average profit at $2 per acre. It has been a hard 
year for the beet growers. 
The contract price and usual cost of thinningbeetsat Nor- 
folk is $4.00 per acre. The 18 pounds seed at $.15 was ar- 
bitrary, under the contract. Here is given the actual de- 
tails from a German grower, Herman Wachter, as a typical 
instance, as he hires no help outside of his family and his 
beets were already dug, and delivered to the factory, thus 
verifying the yields: 
