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<br /> <br />o <br />o <br />(-, <br />.i:> <br />00 <br />W <br /> <br />1942 would mean the produotion of about 1,794.000 tons of sugar beets <br />from wI,ioh refined sugar would amount to approximately 248.000 tons. <br /> <br />III. REFINING CAPACITIES <br />- <br /> <br />1. The present oapaoityof the 13 sugar faotories in North- <br />ern Colorado is adequate to refine all beets that will be produoed in <br />the area in 1942. <br /> <br />2. Data furnished by the Great Western SUgar Company show <br />the following faots. <br /> <br />(a) As an average maximum, the 13 faotories oould operate <br />24 hours per day for l~ to 110 days eaoh oampaign. <br /> <br />(b) Tl:c oombined beet slioing oapacity of the 13 faotories <br />is approximately 24,000 tons per 24 hour day. Hence. as an <br />average maxiJ;.UIIl. the factories oould slioe 2.580.000 tens of <br />sugar beets per o~paign. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />(0) Average beet shrinkage from field to faotory is approxi. <br />mately 3.5 peroent. Therefore, beet produotion required to <br />furnish 2.580.000 tons for slioing would be 2,670.000 tons, <br />and, at an av~rage yield of 13 tons per aore. suoh produotion <br />would neoessitate the harvest of beets from about 205.000 <br />aores, <br /> <br />3. From the data Shown above. it is obvious that the oapaoity <br />of sugar refineries in Northern Colorado is adequate. for present needs <br />and will remain so until a sustained average beet harvest from 205,000 <br />acres is exceeded. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />IV. DISTRICT BEET PRODUCING OAPACITY <br /> <br />1. Maintenanoe of an adequate and effioient crop rotation <br />system necessarily limits the average sugar beet aoreage on individual <br />farms to between 25 and 30 percent of total oropped acreage; on all <br />farms in a large area, the average approximates 25 percent. <br /> <br />. 2. The greatest aoreage from whioh orops were harvested in <br />the Northern Colorado Water Conservanoy Distriot WM 772,000 acres in <br />1930. With the aid of supplemental water supply fram Colorado. Big <br />Thompson, produot;.on Clould probably be maintained at or near that level <br />and thus, the hat".ested beet acreage oould be expected to average ap- <br />proximately 193,000 acres. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-3- <br />