REQUIREMENTS OF FIELD CROPS. 



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Table 38. — Apples: Percentage distribution of costs per acre. 





Western New 

 ■ York. 



Yakima Valley, 

 Wash. 



Item. 



Distribu- 

 tion of 

 operating 

 expense. 



Distribu- 

 tion of 

 total 

 costs. 



Distribu- 

 tion of 

 operating 

 expense. 



Distribu- 

 tion of 



total 



costs. 





Per cent. 

 34.8 

 12.6 



Per cent. 

 28.1 

 10.2 



PSr cent. 

 50.2 

 8.5 



Per cent. 

 37.9 





6.4 







Materials: 



Fertilizer and cover-crop seed 



2.5 



7.8 



.5 



8.0 



26.5 



2.0 



6.3 



.4 



6.5 



21.4 



(a) 



2.7 



.3 



4.6 



23.5 



(a) 

 2.0 





.2 



Spray 



3.5 





17.8 







Total materials 



45.3 



36.6 



31.1 



23.5 



Other costs: 



1.9 



2.9 

 2.5 



1.5 

 2.4 

 2.0 



1.6 



3.4 



4.4 

 .8 



1.2 



2.6 



Taxes and insurance 



3.4 

 .6 











Total other costs 



7.3 



5.9 



10.2 



7.8 







19.2 





24.4 

 080 





$514 



u, 





a Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



MISCELLANEOUS CROPS. 



Besides the staple farm crops there are a great many minor crops. 

 Although most of these may be the chief crops in certain sections, 

 they are of secondary importance considering the country as a whole, 

 and, therefore, have not been made the subject of special cost inves- 

 tigations. The only available data as to the cost of growing these 

 crops have been obtained on farms where complete cost accounting 

 records have been kept for the entire farm business. It will be ob- 

 served in studying the following tables that in a number of instances 

 the number of records is not sufficiently large to warrant drawing 

 definite conclusions, but it is hoped that they may give a general idea 

 as to the probable labor and material requirements for the crops in 

 question. 



Table 39 gives the cost for the miscellaneous crops that may be 

 grown as regular field crops, while Table 40 gives the data for truck 

 crops and the like. Each of the crops covered in Table 40 received 

 about the same amount of care, namely, about 150 man hours per 

 acre. The pansy and aster seed, though grown by experts and not of 

 very much interest to the average farmer, are of general interest as 

 examples of extremely intensive crops. An acre of pansy seed 

 required as much man labor as is necessary to produce 200 acres of 

 wheat in North Dakota. The crops listed in Table 40 are therefore 

 types of crops that may be produced to advantage in sections where 

 land is scarce and labor plentiful. 



