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 cor- 
rugating. ..___ 
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.