Idaho

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Identifikator:: 1795100052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179691

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Idaho

Edition:: [Rev. ed.]

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: VII, 80 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 5 ment of Agriculture and by a large number of agricultural cost ac- countants, and is based upon the fact that the acre is the unit em- ployed by farmers in their calculations and that the hours of labor per acre, pounds of seed planted per acre, manure applied per acre, ind other basic unit requirements in cost vary but little from year to year * unless there is a radical change in farm practice. For factors exhibiting variations from year to year, such as yields per acre, wages, contract labor rates, prices of horse feeds, prices of seed, prices of commercial fertilizer, and land charges, due allowance was made. Illustrations of individual calculations may help to make the method clear to the reader. Wages for 1923 had been obtained on the schedules by the agents of the commission while they were collecting the 1922 data. Wages for 1921 were derived by adjusting the 1922 wages, as found in the investigation, by the percentage of change in monthly wages (without board) paid farm laborers. According to available wage data the average monthly farm wages in Idaho (without board) were 2 per cent higher in 1921 than in 1922. Adding 2 per cent to the 1992 wage rate, therefore, established the 1921 wage rate. An adjustment was also made in the hours of labor for loading and hauling the higher yield of beets in 1923. This same method was followed in all caleula- tions for 1921. Contract labor rates for 1921 and 1923 were obtained directly from the farmers visited in the investigation and were checked against the printed beet contracts for those years, furnished to the commission by the sugar manufacturers. To these rates were added the 1922 costs of the minor items of perquisites furnished by the growers to the contract laborers, and also the extra wages, if any, paid to contract laborers at the rates specified in the 1921 and 1923 contracts for harvesting unusually large crops. For example, the contract labor rates in the Twin Falls area, Idaho, were $21.50 in 1921, 18 in 1922, and $19.50 in 1923. These are the amounts provided in the contracts with the laborers for the combined handwork of block- ing, thinning, hoeing, pulling, and topping an acre of sugar beets under standard conditions. To obtain the total cost of contract labor as shown in the tables the cost of the regular work under standard conditions was increased by (1) extra wages for harvesting an unusually good crop and for extra hoeings; and (2) the value of the perquisites furnished by the growers to the contract laborers. These two items averaged $7.55 per acre for 1921, $8.78 for 1922, and $10.35 for 1923. Hence the regular cost of contract labor when increased by these amounts equaled $29.05 per acre in 1921, $26.78 in 1922, and $29.85 in 1923. Horse costs for 1921 and 1923 were obtained by adjusting the feed costs, as found in the investigation for 1922, to changes in prices as shown by the Yearbooks of the United States Department of Agri- culture for these years. Chores and other labor involved in the care of horses were charged at the new cost rates determined by the method described above. An adjustment was made in the hours of horse labor in hauling the higher yield of beets in 1923. For the remaining items the 1922 data were used. ND @ =] QO ll —t «© « Bs © w po b | @® Q i ~ Ld ~ [14] + ~ oO - (wo ] oN oO ™m oo ! oN o 2 £3 as ER — -— 0 A 1 ~~ | ge | © o oN 0 -L Tol (90) N N Mm oN QO _ * Comparison of the commission’s data with similar data obtained by the Department of Agricultura ‘Dn Investigations made for other years shows a close agreement in these basic units of cost Baie = of Nn

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