22 BULLETIN 1000, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 12. — Sugar beets: Percentage distribution of costs per acre. 
Value of land per acre. 
"Weld Count v, 
Colo. 
Tuscola Countv, 
Mich. 
Item. 
1 
Distri- 
! bution of 
i operating 
j expense. 
Distri- 
bution of 
total 
costs. 
Distri- 
bution of 
operating 
expense. 
Distri- 
bution of 
total 
costs. 
Per cent. 
53.9 
Per cent. 
38.3 
16.0 
Per cent. 
57.1 
19.5 
Per cent. 
49 1 
22.4 
16 8 
! 
Materials: 
Seed 
i 3.5 
2.4 
7.6 
5.7 
4.6 
2.9 
4.9 
Manure 
Fertilizer 
; 10.8 
4.0 
2.5 
Water 
... 1.0 
.7 
Total materials 
15.3 
10.7 
13. 2 
11.4 
Other costs: 
Machinery 
4.0 
4. 4 
2.S 
3.2 
5.0 
5.2 
4.3 
4.4 
8. 4 
6.0 
10.2 
8.7 
29 
14.0 

S1S7 
$102 
Table 13.— Tobacco: Labor and material requirements per acre . 
Man labor. 
Horse labor. 
Ma- 
nure. 
Per 
cent of 
Region. 
Num- 
ber of 
rec- 
ords. 
Yield. 
Prior 
to har- 
vest. 
Har- 
vest. 
Total. 
Prior 
to har- 
vest. 
Har- 
vest. 
Total. 
operat- 
ing ex- 
pense a 
covered 
bv fore- 
going. 
! Lbs. i Hrs. 
19 1-300 90. S 
Hrs. 
104.3 
204.4 
115.7 
Hrs. Hrs. Hrs. 
195. 1 65. 5 25. 2 
Hrs. 
90.7 
98.0 
89.0 
Tons. 
8 77. R 
Kentucky (Burley)&. . 
Kentucky (dark) 
81 
70 
1,141 
825 
170.6 
146.3 
375.0 
262.0 
68.5 
60.7 
29.5 
28.3 
75 
75 
a Excluding interest on land. 
& See Kentucky Bulletin 229, "The Cost of Producing Tobacco in Kentucky," by W. D. Xichoils. 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 w T orms. The 
amounts of all these supplies are, however, very small and of very 
little importance compared with the other cost factors, seed usually 
