. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. jsy^'^^u Washington, D. C. March 14, 1919 FARM PRACTICE IN GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN THREE CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS. By T. H. Summers, Scientific Assistant, L. A. Moorhouse, Agriculturist, and R. S. Washburn, Scientific Assistant, Office of Farm Management, and C. O. TowNSEND, Pathologist in Charge of Sugar-Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. CONTENTS. Summary of results 3 Method of investigation 3 History and development of the sugar beet industry in California 4 Agriculture of areas studied 6 Farm practices 11 C
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. jsy^'^^u Washington, D. C. March 14, 1919 FARM PRACTICE IN GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN THREE CALIFORNIA DISTRICTS. By T. H. Summers, Scientific Assistant, L. A. Moorhouse, Agriculturist, and R. S. Washburn, Scientific Assistant, Office of Farm Management, and C. O. TowNSEND, Pathologist in Charge of Sugar-Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. CONTENTS. Summary of results 3 Method of investigation 3 History and development of the sugar beet industry in California 4 Agriculture of areas studied 6 Farm practices 11 Cost of producing sugar beets 36 Summary and distribution of costs 42 Average returns and margin above cost 43 The effect of size of beet acreage and yield per acre on the cost of production 44 Value of the sugar-beet tops 45 Beet receipts in comparison with other farm receipts 46 Labor requirements 48 The data presented in the following pages are based upon 165 farm records obtained in three typical sugar-beet regions of Cali- fornia. (See fig. 1.) The first part of the bulletin deals with farm practice in the production of the sugar beet. The second part dis- cusses the requirements of the beet crop in terms of the values that prevailed during 1915 and 1916. If such requirements are known, that is, the amount of labor, seed, water, etc., used, the cost of pro- ducing sugar beets can be ascertained for any given crop year by substituting current rates for those used in this study. Actual costs for 1915-191G are presented solely for purposes of comparison. Eighty-one records were obtained south of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles and Orange Counties; 45 were taken at Oxnard, in Ventura Note.—This bulletin Is the foufth of a series of publications which have been prepared to give the results of an Investljjation dealing with trtb farm practice Involved in growing sugar Ix-ets in four of the more important sugar-beet areas In the United States. The first bulletin dealt with this stud
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