54 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TABLE 43.—Farm practice in sugar-beet culture: Kinds of operations and perceni- 
age of the total number of farms on which each operation was performed a given 
number of times 
SUMMARY FOR IDAHO, 1922 
[Data for 2 tractor farms investigated; tractor operations only] 
Other preparations 
for planting 
Number of times the ground was gone over 
Idaho (total) ec cccuaoaooo.. 
10 4 Vo 
TIC... cnmmmmm mmm: J. 
Three times. .- 
Twin Falls (total)... 
Once.._.... JR 
Blackfoot ($0tal) ove oem emmm———————— 
CDTVORY cy 0 0 AL i 0 re HA 
Twice. amalcccaae. ooo me ‘ 
Three times... 
Plowing 
Leveling 
Harrow- 
ing— 
Spike 
tooth 
100.0 | 50.0 50.0 
100.0 |ooeeeee.. . 
50.0 oe ooo. 
50.0 
100.0 
"710000 | TT 100.0 
1100.0 
TABLE 44.— Farm practice respecting the use of manure in sugar-beet production 
SUMMARY FOR IDAHO, BY AREAS, 1922 
[The data are for those farms only on which manure was applied to the sugar-beet land] 
Area 
Idaho: 
Average for farms investi- 
gated. ooo 
Twin Falls evo. 
Blackfoot ooo eee 
' Percent- 
age of 
total 
sugar- 
beet 
acreage 
naniired 
Labor of hauling 
and spreading 
per load 
Loads of 
manure 
per acre 
Average 
tons per 
load 
Value of 
manure 
ser load 
Cost per 
load for 
manure 
and ma- 
nuring 1 
Man 
hours 
Horse 
hours 
63.7! 128! 132' n20! 256! $0.84 $150 
48.7 12.2 1.47 1.24 | 2.37 .95 1.61 
74.6 13.0 Las! 118 2.64 79 | 1.46 
1 These figures include the value of manure and cost of man labor and horse labor, but do not include 
equipment cost. They, of course, are not at all comparable with the data shown in Tables 12 and 13 as the 
average cost of manure, because the data here refer to the acreage manured only, while there they refer to 
the entire beet acreage harvested; and also here the total value per load is considered, while there the cost 
has reference to only that part of the total valiie that is chargeable to the beet crop of a certain vear.