54 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TABLE 43.—Farm practice in sugar-beet culture: Kinds of operations and perceniage
 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

Harrowing—

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 investigated.
 ooo
Twin Falls evo.
Blackfoot ooo eee

' Percentage
 of
total
sugarbeet

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 manuring
 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.