GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN UTAH AND IDAHO. 

 Table IX. — Leveling practice. 



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District. 



Year. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 farm 

 records. 



Acres 

 leveled 



per 

 farm. 



Times 

 leveled. 



Average crew. 



Hours per acre. 



Total 

 cost 



Man. 



Horse. 



Man. 



Horse. 



per 

 acre. 





1914-15 



1914-15 



1915 



80 

 57 

 35 



18.27 

 14.37 

 20.27 



1.52 

 1.39 

 1.58 



1 

 1 

 1 



3.70 

 3.09 

 3.66 



1.42 

 1.87 

 1.28 



5.18 

 5.60 



4.77 



$0 75 





92 



Idaho Falls 



.74 







Leveling requires a generous supply of horsepower in order to do 

 the work efficiently. In performing this operation the dominant 

 crew used on the farms studied consisted of one man and four horses. 

 Ninety-three reports gave crews of this size, and the distribution 

 shows that 57 records belonged to Garland, 14 to Provo, and 22 to 

 Idaho Falls. The crew next in size, one man and three horses, was 

 found in 23 Garland, 34 Provo, and 13 Idaho Falls records. Provo 

 fanners gave nine estimates showing crews with one man and two 

 horses. The latter district had the highest cost per acre for leveUng. 

 An average day's work with the leveler varied from 7 to 11 acres. 



FLOATrNG. 



Tlie float is designed primarily to crush clods. It is homemade and 

 may be placed in the same class as the leveler. It is constructed out 

 of planks lapped one upon another, forming a beveled surface that 

 comes in contact with the soil. The average float was about 8 feet in 

 width. This homemade affair is often attached to the rear of the 

 harrow, thereby pulverizing and crushing the soil in one operation. 

 Occasionally the same result may be obtained by fastening a single 

 plank behind the harrow. There were only 15 records which dealt 

 with floating; 11 of these were obtained at Provo. A survey of the 

 practice on the Provo farms indicates that the ground was gone over 

 on an average of 1.8 times, with time consumed approximately 1.89 

 man hours and 4.93 horse hours per acre, and cost 85 cents per acre. 

 At Idaho Falls the floating was done only once, at an average cost 

 of 55 cents per acre. One special clod masher was recorded in these 

 studies, the cost with this implement being approximately 39 cents 

 per acre for one treatment. 



HARROWING. 



The harrow is an important tillage implement on every farm. 

 It is not only used extensively in the preparation of land which is 

 to be seeded to grain, but it also plays a very important part in 

 the development of a suitable seed for intertilled crops. Two types 

 were found in each section — namely, the common spike-tooth harrow 

 and the spring-tooth harrow. Estimates were secured covering the 

 use of each of these implements. (See Tables X and XI.) 



