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into the question of cheap foreign labor, claimeu to be used 
in this industry. The details, covering the growing of 45Q 
acres of beets around Grand Island, Lockwood and Rivers, 
Nebraska, show an average reported yield of 9.5 tons (pay- 
ing the grower, $38.00,) average cost per acre $28.73, 
average profft per acre of $9.27. The actual average yield 
reported from the factory there for 1897 is 8.1 tons per acre. 
The yield reported there varied from five tons to twelve 
tons per acre, and the 7 ie^ results from $17.00 per acre profit 
to $12.00 per acre loss. Upon a review of these figures, the 
increased cost seems to be from the grower’s living more 
distant from the factory — many shipping by rail. The 
average cost per acre may be fairly put at $30.00 there, the 
same as at Norfolk. The officials at both these factories 
put the cost per acre at the value of seven tons of beets, or 
$28.00 per acre. 
Mr. R. M. Allen, of Ames, Nebraska, president of the 
American Sugar Growers’ Society, and who raised for several 
years an average of over 500 acres of sugar beets, keeping 
the exact details of every item of cost, is firmly convinced, 
from his own records and experience, that sugar beets can 
be grown and marketed in Nebraska, at a cost of [$30.00 
per acre. 
LEHI FACTORY. 
George Austin, agriculturist for the factory at Lehi, 
gives the average cost to the grower of raising beets there 
for the past seven years, at $32.50 per acre. This does not, 
however, cover the land rental, which is from $7.50 to $15.00 
per acre in that locality. We have averaged the rental at 
$10.00 per acre. The figures given me on the yield there 
average 10. i tons per acre, but the actual average yield of 
all beets grown in 1897 was 6.75 tons per acre. From the 
figures given us, the average cost per acre there is $40.00. 
This may be assumed as fairly accurate, since there is added 
to the Nebraska cost, an average of $5-oo per acre increased 
rental, the cost of irrigation and a lack of proper machinery 
to do work quickly and cheaply. ddie one-row cultivator 
is often used instead of the four-rowed machinery, while the 
beet puller, used in Nebraska, is not used or known in Utah. 
As a comparative instance, a grower at Springville reports 
20 tons of beets per acre. Prices of labor are the same 
there as in Nebraska, yet he reports a cost of $14.00 more 
per acre than the current figures around the eastern facto- 
ries. Very little of the work is done by contract in beet 
growing in Utah. 
