Bingham News | 1922-04-22 | Page 1 | Beet Sugar Decrease Noted

BEET SUGAR DECREASE NOTED Production for . 1921 ' Is U.S32 Tans . .Under Production of 1920 - '. 'Washington. Beet , sugar . production produc-tion for 1921 amounted to 1,020,483 short tons, Secretary . Wallace announced an-nounced Thursday, adding that this amount wss 68,5,12 tons less than the production 1020. The' sugar beet area of 1021 grew on 814,1)83 acres, an area that was 50,083 acres less than that, of 1920, and, It was said, the report was the result of enumeration find tint nt eatlmntln . Tarmen received 40,lM,000 for the 7,782,000 tons of the beet sugar crop for 1021, whkh afforded an average of 00 per acre and 8.32 per ton, and the price per ton was said to be as low as In 1918. Ninety-two factorios were in operation for seventy-six days on the average, it was said, end the fraction ot sucross actually extracted was 13.70 per cent of the weight of beets, as compared with an average of 13.M per cent for the, years 1813-20.