58 © COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS
TABLE 50.—Acreage of principal crops grown on the sugar-beet farms investigated,
Idaho, 1922
[Only those farms reporting the yield per acre are used in this tabulation]
Number of acres devoted to—
Alta
Idaho 2. oa...
Pwim Falls ooo.
Blackfoot. ooo.
Soar | Alfalfa | Wheat |
I Corn
Pais: | Cats for
aes grain
Barley | Beans
1,207
5(2
698
2, 627
1, 066
1, 561
1,982 | 856 318 | 218, 152] 88
1,023 | 3i1| 75 | 161 | 139 | 88 !
959 545 243 57 13 {meee
Other
hay!
151
148
3
U'Includés all hay except alfalfa. 2 Combination of the 2 Idaho areas investigated.
TABLE 51.—Percentage of the crop land growing each of the various crops on the
sugar-beet farms investigated, Idaho, 1922
Percentage of the crop land of the farms investigated that
was devoted to—
Area
All 1 Sugar
TOUS beat Alfalfa | Wheat
Potatoes
Dats
Twin Falls. eee
Blackfoot _ ee ee em mm,
100 14.9 32.4 24.4 | 10.5 3.9
100 | 13.4 28.0. 26.8 8.2 | 2.0
100 16.2 36.2 22.3 12.6 5.6
Percentage of the crop land of the farms investigated that
was devoted to-
[daho 1. ______
Corn for
grain
Barley
Beans
Other
hay 2
Fruit and
miscella-
neots 3
Pasture
[daho1_._._. ._
15
3.1
1.9 |
om
1.1
~ 2.2
2.5
4.5 2.4
42] 3.0
47 90
Twin Falls__..... . ..
Blackfoot.
TABLE 52.— Yields per acre of the principal crops grown on the sugar-beet farms
investigated. Idaho. 1922
1 Weighted average of the 2 Idaho areas investigated.
1 Includes timothy, clover, wild hay, and all other hay except alfalfa.
' Miscellaneous includes truck crops, clover seed, and 1.8 per cent of summer fallow land.
Average vield per acre of—
A "AQ
Sugar
heets
daho 2____
Tons
14.6
16.3
13.4
Twin Falls. oo eoemao oo.
Blackfoot... ____.__....
1 Includes all hav except alfalfa.
Alfalfa Wheat
Pota-
toes | Oats
Corn
for
grain
Barley !
Beans | iter
Tons | Bushels, Bushels| Bushei..
3.8] 39.3! 222.2 48.7
4.4 43.1 | 222.6 | 64.2
3.31 35.2! 22090! 43.5%
Bushels Bushels| Bushels)
56. 1 36.9 32.0
55.7 36.1 32.0 |
60.01 46.9 |.__._.._._
Tons
2.3
2.3
3.7
2 Average of the 2 Idaho areas investigated.
