REQUIREMENTS OE FIELD CROPS. 49 
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 
Per cent. 
50.2 
8.5 
Per cent. 
37.9 
Horse labor 
6.4 
Materials: 
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 
(o) 
Manure 
2.0 
.2 
Spray 
3.5 
17.8 
45.3 
36.6 
31.1 
23.5 
Other costs: 
Apple building 
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 
Land charge . 
19.2 
24.4 
$514 
$1,080 
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. 
