HORSE-LABOR COSTS: IDAHO, BY AREAS

TABLE 29.—Horse cost rates per hour
SUMMARY FOR IDAHO AND ANALYSIS BY AREAS, 1921, 1922, AND 1923

Horse cost rates per hour (cents)

[daho

Twin Falls.__..
Blackfoot...

nat

1922

10.6
10.7
10. 6

1923

10.3
10.3 |
10.3

3-year
average

9.8
10.0
9.9

Notr.—The indirect horse costs are included in the rates and are thereby prorated to sugar beets on the
basis of the hours of direct horse labor. The rates are therefore somewhat higher than they would be if
ndirect horse costs were shown in the number of hours of horse labor rather than in the cost rate per hour.

TABLE 30.—Hours' of direct horse labor employed in the production of an acre of
sugar beets

SUMMARY FOR IDAHO AND ANALYSIS BY AREAS, 1921, 1922, AND 1923
[No attempt was made to obtain the hours of indirect horse labor on sugar beets]

Hours of direct horse labor employed in
the production of an acre of sugar beets

[daho_

Twin Falls........
Blackfoot

1921

A

1923

118.8

109.9
124.7

3-year
AVerage

114.2
106. 2
119.9

TaBLE 31.—Horse labor— Average hours of horse labor required to perform once
the various machine operations employed in the production of sugar beeis!

SUMMARY FOR IDAHO, 1922

Operation

Manuring_..___. _
Cleaning ditches....__.
Removing trash. ..._..__
Disking before plowing...
Crowning alfalfa.
Plowing____..._...
Disking after plowing...
Leveling and floating. __
Spike-tooth harrowing. _____
Spring-tooth harrowing. ___._.
Rolling, cultipacking, and corrugating.
 ..___

Horse hours per
acre 1n—

Tnited
States

Idaho

vr Ff

Operation

auling fertilizer.....
suling seed.....
Anting. oo eeeeeem ean.
reparations for replanting. _.
splanting.._..
arrowing beets
Rolling beets...
Spraying beets. _.
Cultivating beets... J
?’lowing ditches...._... _....
ACIDE eee.
Loading and hauling... ___._

Horse hours per
acre in—

United
States

Tdaho

3
2

0.:
2,
8.4
2.2
Ie
I$
1.4
Lf
12.¢
20%

x 7

!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 these operations were performed on all farms, the sum of the hours spent on
ach operation may be greater than the average hours of horse labor required in the production of an acre
af sugar beets shown elsewhere in this report.