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"One-fourth of this is, 1.2 men hours and 5.1 horse 

 hours. This added to the regular work gives 49.5 men 

 hours and 136.3 horse hoiu-s. 



"This means that on a 25-acre patch of beets you will 

 have to spend 1207.5 hoiu-s of work, or 120.75 working 

 days of 10 hours, during a growing season for this work, 

 and your horses will have performed 3410 hours, or 341 

 days of 10 hours each, or if you have 6 horses, each horse 

 has averaged 57 days' work during the growing season 

 on 25 acres of beets.' 



L. A. IMoorhouse ^ found the following for man and horse 

 labor in producing one acre of beets : 



Table XVIII. — Information Pertaining to Practice and 

 Cost of Production of Sugar-Beets. (1914-1915) 



Item 



Provo Dis- 

 trict, Utah 



^Garland Dis- j 

 TRicT, Utah i 



Idaho Falls 



District, 



Idaho 



No. of operators reporting 

 No. of acres grown . . 

 Yield to the acre . . . 

 Hours of man labor . . 

 Hours of horse labor . 



58 

 833 



14.9 tons 

 130.8 

 117.1 



79 

 1461 



14.8 tons 

 133.3 

 98.5 



36 

 735 



13.6 tons 

 119.4 



79.3 



^ Correspondence with the author. 



