76 COSTS OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS.
TaBLE 43.—Hours of direct labor on machine operations and indirect labor
employed in the production of an acre of sugar beets

SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ANALYSIS BY STATES, 1921,
1922, AND 1923

[Exclusive of contract labor, labor operating tractors, all machine labor hired at custom or piece rates, i. e.,
drilling beet seed, etc., and labor of supervising and managing]

Hours of direct labor on machine operations
 and indirect labor employed in
the production of an acre of sugar beets

ran

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Wyoming o.oo.
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California... ocoeee___.. ee

1921 1922

Per acre
51.4

Per acre
52. 9

48.5
39.0
54.8
61.2
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5¢.
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£

1923

Per acre
8.1

48.8
41.2
53 2
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3-year
average

Per acre
52. 6.

48.8
40.1
55.6
60.7
60. 4.
63.4.
60.5
62.2:
26. 8.

TABLE 44.—Man labor— Average hours of 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]

Man hours per acre in—

Operation

Manuring. co ceeceeeeccaeaae.
Cleaning ditches. o.oo...
Removing trash... occu ...
Disking before plowing....__.
Crowning alfalfa... .....
PlOWING anes ceeeeeeeemee
Disking after plowing _.._....
Leveling and floating. ..c.....
Spike-tooth harrowing_.......
3pring-tooth harrowing __....
Rolling, cultipacking and corrugating._..._....
 ——
Hauling fretilizer__...__._____
Hauling seed . RRR
Planting... ooo]
Preparations for replanting__.
Replanting_.__ ._____________
Harrowing... occ.
Rolling ...conocce meee
Spraying__.__... A
Cultivating... _..o____.
Plowing ditches...
[rrigating._ _.._...___.
Lifting. __.______.__.
Loading and hauling_________

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Note.—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 of these operations were performed on all farms, the sum of the hours spent on
each operation may be greater than the average hours of man labor required on machine operations in the
production of an acre of sugar beets shown elsewhere in this report.