50 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS 
TABLE 40.— Returns for capital, management, and labor other than contract and 
tractor operation 
SUMMARY FOR IDAHO AND ANALYSIS BY AREAS, 1921, 1922, AND 1923 
Amount by 
which the 
returns 
from sugar 
he oxteel 
, the cost 0 Gross 
bp Train, returns for 
| of capital |. ibang dq 
sharges, the|C2Pital an | 
- costs of all manage: 
direct labor, 
mm machine 
operation, 
and all | 
indirect 
abhor costs 
Gross 
returns for 
capital and 
manage- 
ment as 
expressed 
in per- 
centage of 
total 
capital em- 
ployed in 
sugar-beet 
produc- 
tion 2 
Area and year 
Value of 
and and 
other 
capital 
Hours of 
abor other 
than con- 
tract and 
tractor 
nperation 
Gross 
returns for 
labor ! and 
manage- 
ment 
2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
(6) 
(7) 
Cents per | Cents per 
wour of labor hour of labor 
on machine | on machine 
operations | operations 
and indirect | and indirect 
labor labor 
373.0 447.5 
1m —-10 & 
[daho: 
3-year average. oo... 
1921 ee. 
1922 eo. 
1923___. —mmeem 
Per acre 
3232 
264 
Per acre 
63.4 
61 
Per acre 
e4Q 28 
Per cent 
510. 46 
~3.34 
18. 59 
22. 53 
[fT 
Twin Falls— 
3-year average. .o..... 
192)... inion 
1972... 
1023___. 
13.74 
~2.18 
22. 55 
22.66 
9.38 
—4,34 
15.53 
20. 23 
"Labor other than contract labor and the labor of operating the tractors. It is therefore the labor on 
machine operations and the indirect labor. 
2 See Table 34 and footnotes to Tables 32 and 33. 
3 These figures were obtained by dividing those in column 4 by those in column 3. 
4 These figures were obtained by subtracting from those in column 4 the capital charges per acre of beets 
harvested, as shown in Table 12, and dividing the result by the hours per acre, as shown in column 3. . 
8 These figures were obtained by subtracting from those in column 4 the direct labor costs on machine 
operations and indirect labor costs per acre, as shown in Table 12, and dividing the result by the value of 
land and other capital per acre, as shown in column 2. 
Note.—The figures in column 2 were taken from Table 34, those in column 3 from Table 26, and those 
in column 4 from Table 12. 
b All minus signs (—) indicate that the costs. as calculated for use in this table, were greater than the 
returns by the amounts shown. 
Blackfoot— 
3-yer™ average.