COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 79
TABLE 48.— Horse labor— Average hours of horse labor required to perform once the
various machine operations employed in the production of sugar beets
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1922
[Per acre:

Horse hours per acre in-Operation



Manuring___........___._______
Cleaning ditches. ___._._._._.
Removing trash_.____._.___.
Disking before plowing____._.
“rowning alfalfa._. LL

Plowing. __. __..._ ae ...
Disking after plowing. __._.._
Leveling and floating______.__:
ipike-tooth harrowing... ._.
Rpring-tooth harrowing__._._.
Rolling, cultipacking, and
corrugating._.___.__.____.____.
Hauling fertilizer_............
Hauling seed. _.. eee

Planting. . .. o_o...
Preparations for replanting_..
Replanting- - - oo oc oe

Jarrowing. .ooeeeoooeooaa.
Rolling_____._ mm——————
Spraying... memc————
Cultivating _. ee __

Plowing ditches... _____.___._
[rrigating...

Lifting. ....___._____.
Loading and hauling_._._..._.

Inited' Mich-States
 | igan

27.2
1.1
.3
4.5
17. 5

18.5
1

Tir

7.7
a. 4
3 6
LA
11

13.0
LQ

or

2.1
’ Q

ar

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c
a

3

al &F

:. | Ne- | Colo-Ohio
 wy | rado

16.6
.Z
1.8

26.4

25.5
=

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TTt+ah

32.8

Idaho

32.6

AJ. =

Wyoming


98 1

o

ry

Montana


California


24.1

21.68

4
4.6
25.5

=~

23.7
6.4
6.9
3.7
5.2

3

yy

4.2
swash swan

2.4
8.8
3.6

2.2
13.6
2.0

8
3

Tr
18
3.2
21.5
39.3

-

9

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Nore.—All farms on which tractors were used were excluded from these tabulations. The above figures
wers 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 each
operation may be greater than the average hours of horse labor required in the production of an acre of
sugar beets shown elsewhere in this report.