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 
MOBUIING. owen winmmanmmmios 
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_______ 
Block- 
ing 
and 
shin- 
ning 
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.¢ 
3lock- 
ng 
nd 
shin- 
ning 
Hoeing 
Pulling 
and 
“opping 
Block- 
ing 
and 
thin- 
ning 
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.