UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 693 



Joint Contribution from the Office of Farm Management, 



W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief, and the Bureau of 



Plant Industry, W. A. Taylor, Chief. 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



July 16, 1918 



FARM PRACTICE IN GROWING SUGARBEETS FOR 

 THREE DISTRICTS IN UTAH AND IDAHO, 1914-1915. 



By L. A. MooRHOusE, Agriculturist, and T. H. Summers and R. S. Washburn, 

 Scientific Assistants, Office of Farm Management, and Jambs W. Jones, Agricul- 

 turist, Office of Sugar-Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Summary of results 1 



Object ' 2 



Procedure 3 



Cooperation 4 



Areas studied 4 



Size of farm in relation to beet acreage 8 



Relation of beet acreage to irrigated area 9 



Comparison of farm estimates with factory 



records 10 



Method of presenting data 11 



Crop rotation 11 



Value of man labor and horse labor 14 



Farm practice in the production of sugar 



beets, and related costs 15 



Cost of producing sugar beets 35 



Value of tops ; 40 



Beet acreage per farm and yield per acre in 



relation to cost 41 



Comparison of beet receipts with other farm 



receipts : 42 



Relation of yield to cost of production 42 



The data presented in this bulletin are based upon 173 farm esti- 

 mates. Three typical districts are represented in this study, namely, 

 Provo, in Utah County, Utah; Garland, in Boxelder County, Utah; 

 and Idaho Falls, in Bonneville County, Idaho. The observations 

 which were made are directly applicable to the crop years 1914 and 

 1915. At Provo and Garland practically all of the farmers who 

 gave estimates during the year 1914 also contributed information 

 for the crop year beginning April 1, 1915. 



SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 



The most important differences in the field practice employed in 

 the three areas studied were found in such operations as manuring, 

 plowing, disking, harrowing with the spring-tooth, cultivating (some 

 using a 1-man-l-horse crew and others a l-man-2-horse crew) and 

 performing the hand labor (some utilizing the available farm help 

 while others had this done on a contract basis). 



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