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Show DETAIL COST OF ! SUGAR .NMKING Idaho Farm Bureau Hears Report on Handling of Beets BOISE, Ida. Nov. 20. Voluminous statistics on the cost of growing sugar beeti and 'he tost of manufacturing sugar arc contained in a report of the last meeting of the sugar beat project commhten of the Idaho state farm bureau which has been issued here by ' II. Musser assistant director of ex tension who acted as secretary of the committee for its meeting, held In Po-ca Po-ca lello- This report says that a committee, constating pf J. Bj. Jensen, Kexburg. chairman Arthur Manw.irlng. King ham county. Mai Yin Luke, Jefferson i unity and two others, to he appointed from the southwestern part of the stare, was chosen to Investigate the m. liter Of percentage f extraction from sugar bails, arid also the particular partic-ular percentage extracted by the re-ipective re-ipective companlea. it is understood thai l his committee will make a further fur-ther stud1, of costs of beet production and of the manufacture of sugar. C. '. Tavlor. farm management demonstrator demon-strator of the nnlveraltj extension division divi-sion will agSlSI i In- committee as an advisor. i i iM pi rt RE According to figures submitted by C J. Call, of Jefferson county, 11 a 8t! $133.4 1, plus H 10 per cent profit of 113.84 making a total of $ 1 46.78, to Kro' an .u re of beets c. p. Talor made a similar statement, state-ment, baaed on actual surveys In the Twin Falls ami other sections, showing show-ing the cost to he approximately 1130 per acre noi Including profit. Several teblaj were presented by Mr Call. a having been worked oui at August and October meeting- Of I'tah , a ini I daho beet gi u R . A i ible xhovvlng "price per ton of be. is figured on SO per cent extraction and 80-60 division" showed a propose. I beet price, ranging from $6.72. on 14 per cenl beets, with sugar selling ai $i. to $21.76 a ton for 17 emit bed- with sugar selling a: $ig Anolhci lahie slmvd pi ices ranging rang-ing from 1 6 MH to 119.29 (with sugar at $15). It Wi.l l I'KM I B Another proposed schedule as submitted sub-mitted by the I'tah-ldaho committee -bowed a range from $6.3$ to $20.67 pei ton fpr beets dapenlng .n a range of $6 to $1 in Ihe price of .i gar, h range of 14 to 17 per cenK" in . is .i r content and a range in average toot of cossettes.-ratio 1 064 to 1 292. 'Ih!s schedule Is hnsed on a .il-.'fl division divi-sion of 76 per cenl of A sugar in the leei- as shown l the analysis of cos : settes An. Itemi.at ion of the I'tah-ldaho Sugai company's. epense por ton of beets for non-stelfen fa torlen, year endlng Kebruarx 2S. 1920. showed a I Dsl of $ 1 Q.018 per ton H. A Banning, of the Amalgamated Sugar company, submitted s table of coats of be.-' production mnging from $79.71 to $101 35 per acre, according to the yield, the cost per ton ranging from $s H6 s I eight tons per acre, to $f .06, at 20 tons per acre. on |