22 BULLETIN 1000, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 12. — Sugar beets: Percentage distribution of costs per acre. 





Weld County, 

 Colo. 



Tuscola County, 

 Mich. 



Item. 



Distri- 

 bution of 

 operating 

 expense. 



Distri- 

 bution of 

 total 

 costs. 



Distri- 

 bution of 

 operating 

 expense. 



Distri- 

 bution of 

 total 

 costs. 



Man labor 



Per cent. 

 53.9 

 22.4 



Per cent. 

 38.3 

 16.0 



Per cent. 

 57.1 

 19.5 



Per cent. 

 49 1 





16 8 









Materials: 



Seed 



3.5 

 10.8 



2.4 

 7.6 



5.7 

 4.6 

 2.9 



4.9 





4.0 





2 5 



Water 



1.0 



.7 













15.3 



10.7 



13.2 



11.4 



Other costs: 



4.0 

 4.4 



2.8 

 3.2 



5.0 

 5.2 



4.3 

 4.4 





8.4 



6.0 



10.2 



8 7 











29 





14.0 











Value of land per acre. 



$102 



Table 13. — Tobacco: Labor and material requirements per acre. 





Num- 

 ber of 

 rec- 

 ords. 



Yield. 



Man labor. 



Horse labor. 



Ma- 

 nure. 



Per 



cent of 



Region. 



Prior 

 to har- 

 vest. 



Har- 

 vest. 



Total. 



Prior 

 to har- 

 vest. 



Har- 

 vest. 



Total. 



operat- 

 ing ex- 

 pense a 

 covered 

 by fore- 

 going. 





19 



Lbs. 



1,300 



Hrs. 

 90.8 

 170.6 

 146.3 



Hrs. 

 104.3 



204.4 

 115.7 



Hrs. 



195.1 

 375. 

 262.0 



Hrs. 



Hrs. 



25.2 



Hrs. 



90.7 

 98.0 

 89.0 



Tons. 

 8 



77.8 



Kentucky (Burley)&. . 

 Kentucky (dark) 



81 

 70 



1,141 

 825 



68.5 

 60.7 



29.5 

 28.3 



75 

 75 



a Excluding interest on land. 



6 See Kentucky Bulletin 229, "The Cost of Producing Tobacco in Kentucky," by W. D. Nicholls, Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Kentucky, and F. W. Peek, Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics, U . S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



TOBACCO. 



Because of the large quantity of skilled labor required in the pro- 

 duction of tobacco and the long period over which the labor is dis- 

 tributed, this crop competes with practically every other farm enter- 

 prise. Wherever it is grown, therefore, it is usually the chief source 

 of income and all other enterprises are more or less neglected in the 

 interest of the tobacco crop. Labor, machinery, and building costs 

 are the three chief factors in the operating cost of tobacco production. 



The materials used are seed, paper, twine, fuel, and in some sec- 

 tions small quantities of poison, used for killing worms. The 

 amounts of all these supplies are, however, very small and of very 

 little importance compared with the other cost factors, seed usually 



