14 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TaBLE 27.—Man labor—Average hours of labor required to perform once the
various machine operations employed in the production of sugar beets 1
SUMMARY FOR IDAHO, 1922
Operation
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Cleaning ditches... . coco.
Removing trash... ._.__
Disking before plowing... ...__
Crowning alfalfa__._. rw
Plowing... oc... o_o.
Disking after plowing _....___.
Leveling and floating_..__ “een
Spike-tooth harrowing ________
Spring-tooth harrowing_______
Rolling, cultipacking, and
corrugating_ oo iocneann
Hauling fertilizer... co... ._.
Man hours per
acre in—
United
States | 1daho
Per acre
IB] l
Per acre
15.¢
1./
1.
1
2
4,
1.
1.¢
.8
Dperation
Fauling seeG.ce.canee ......
Planting. eee
reparations for replanting___
teplanting. ...oooocoaoao._.
.arrowing beets... .........
Rolling beets. ooo.
Praying. ce cececammeeeee
oultivating ooo.
Plowing ditches. mea coooooo_.
[rrigating.. RE
TAT. cow pmemeamanse somos
Loading and haulinge.ooene_.
Man hours per
acre in—
United
States
Idaho
Per ¢
Per acre
0.2
1.1
2.4
1.
1.
1°
2.3
5.0
8.8
1
2.0
4.4
11.0
t All farms on which tractors were used were excluded from these tabulations. The above figures were
obtained by dividing the hours spent on each operation by the number of acres for which the operation
was performed. As not all of these operations were performed on all farms, the sum of the hours spent on
pach operation may be greater than the average hours of man labor required in the production of an acre of
sugar beets shown elsewhere in this report.
TABLE 28.—Percentage of acreage of sugar beets worked by the various kinds of
hand or (contract, family, hired help, and grower’s labor) on sugar-beet farms
investigate
SUMMARY FOR IDAHO AND ANALYSIS BY AREAS, 1922
Various kinds of hand-labor operations by the different kinds of labor
Contract labor 1 | Family labor 3 |
Hired help and grower’s
labor 3
Area
[daho_ occa.
Twin Falls__._.
Biackfoot_______
Blocking
and
shinning
Hoeing
Pulling
and
topping
Der cent Per cent | Per cent
9.7. 61.81 8.7
89.2 81.9 01.7
72.4 57.8 | 74.¢
3lockng
nd
shinning
Hoeing
Pulling
and
“opping
Blocking
and
thinning
Hoeing
Pulling
and
topping
Per cent | Per cent Per cent, Per cent Per cent | Per cent
15.1 21.8 15.0 5.2 10.4 3.3
6.8 | 6.1, 5.4 4.0 120] 3.4
21.4 32.8 21.8 6.2 9.4 3.3
1 Hired on an acre basis.
! Performed by members of the grower’s family (other than the grower).
} Performed by the regular hired labor or by the grower.
