IRRIGATED FARMING IN TWIN FALLS COUNTY, IDAHO 19 
GARDEN AND OTHER CROPS 
In Figure 7 the family garden, the family orchard, and a few minor 
crops, such as onions and head lettuce, are grouped together under 
“Garden and other crops.’’ The figure shows no radical changes in 
the proportional acreage devoted to this group from 1913 to 1924. 
PASTURE 
The permanent pastures of the project are mostly seeded to blue- 
grass. Ladino clover, one of the newly introduced pasture crops, 
shows promise of replacing some of the blue grass. During the 
period covered by Figure 7, the relative acreage devoted to pasture 
‘remained fairly constant. In response to the increase in livestock 
in 1923 and 1924, the pasture acreage was slightly increased during 
these two years. ° 
CHANGES IN IDAHO LIVESTOCK, BUTTER, AND WOOL PRICES, 1910-1924 
Average prices to producers in Idaho are shown in Table 3 for 
milk cows, butter, hogs, horses, sheep, and wool for the years 1910 to 
1924, inclusive. The yearly prices for milk cows and horses are the 
averages of the monthly prices. The yearly prices for the other 
commodities were obtained by weighting the monthly prices according 
to the monthly movement of each commodity to market. Figure 14 
presents these prices in percentages of base prices. The base used for 
each commodity is the average of the 1910 to 1914 prices. 
TABLE 3.—Average prices to producers in Idaho for milk cows, butter, hogs, horses, 
sheep, wool, and beef catile, 1910-1924 
: = Beef 
Milk Butter | Hogs | Wool Sheep 
Year cows per per 100 | ee per per 100 cattle per 
per head} pound | pounds | pound | pounds pounds 
Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars 
EQLOEL #2 Pusan | ee Ses 43 0.33 | 7. 96 | 148 | 0.19 4.83 5. 04 
eS atans e e e e e 47 29 | 6. 84 | 133 15 4. 06 4. 63 
iN Pe ales ie ea Le a RS Sera 58 ol | 6. 72 | 131 17 4.06 SSC 
i Vib te ee Oe an ome 2 eee eee eee eee 71 mer foals 128 16 4. 28 6. 06 
he 1 See ee eee ee ee Tis . 29 6.95 121 17 4. 50 6.01 
Average 1910-1914____._________. 59 31 7.12 | 132 17 4. 35 5. 38 
Mth vets ot eel Scere | 72 27 5.97 | 120 22 | 5.38 | 5. 62 
thi (Skee Soak ee ee ae eee 70 30 | 7. 59 | 122 27 6. 34 6. 04 
wily ES eo ee ee eee ee ae 77 40 13. 45 | 129 7 10. 50 7. 53 
TOS 2 eee ee ee SIS S| 84 47 lay sya! 125 57 9. 89 3. 7 
Pepe eo Sao ee ee 89 56 15. 21 | 111 46 8. 21 8. 91 
C2) Ac eaelt 2 eee Ree 85 59} 1259| . 112 36 7.88 | 7.82 
1A ES et oe eee 67 39 8. 05 90 16 4. 57 5. 25 
aa AES iia ee | 71 36 8 54 | 7 27 5. 86 5. 27 
ia eee eee ee ee 72 43 Z12 | 76 . 39 6. 40 5. 22 
Ld 7A se see od Sete Oe ee 67 40 7. 29 64 .39 5. 63 3. 17 
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Compiled from data of Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
The yearly price of milk cows and horses are simple averages of the monthly prices. The yearly prices 
for butter, hogs, sheep, wool, and beef cattle were obtained by weighting monthly prices according to the 
monthly movement of the respective commodities to market. 
There was a general downward trend in the price of horses from 
1910 to 1924, the average price being $148 per head in 1910 and $64 
in 1924. The price of milk cows advanced nearly 80 per cent from 
1910 to 1914; the price of the other commodities (sheep, wool, hogs, 
beef cattle, and butter) remained fairly stable during the five-year 
base period. During the war period the prices of butter, milk cows, 
