TRRIGATED FARMING IN TWIN FALLS COUNTY, IDAHO 
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TABLE 2.—Hstimated average prices to producers in Idaho, for specified crops, 
1910-11 to 1923-24 
| 
Year beginning Wheat | Oats per} Barley eee Potatoes} Beans | See eer. 
Aug. 1 per bushel] bushel /per bushel bushel |Pe bushel) per bushel Start fonllshortiton 
Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars | Dollars 
IROL Ih re es ae ee 0. 76 0. 43 0. 55 7. 93 ORT (a oars So Balints per cE. ie ee 
TQ Se . 67 43 . 69 8. 72 . 74 2. 60 50 25| tea eee 
OID =e ss SALLE . 67 35 . 59 8.11 . 34 Dail ESS yal Rae boy ee 
NOIZ=Aa cee Pe ae . 66 36 202 7. 02 . 53 2. 57 BOO Fe ann ele oe 
NOP ASN FE en Oe . 80 38 . 53 entil 00 2. 79 To | ee A 
Average 1910-11 to 
GTA HT Se Sees ail . 39 3 YE 7. 91 . 69 12.67 Te Aas eee nee 
IOS 1622225 eee 80 .38 53 Oe 64 2. 99 5. 08 9. 54 
1OTG =e ots eee = 1. 30 . 4 70 9. 22 | 1. 38 4. 51 6. 16 15. 62 
NOWi—lSta ees == ere 1.88 .79 1. 06 12. 40 80 6. 58 7. 06 Alia, 117 
AL GG Ore ok eee we 1. 96 88 1. 30 18. 24 | 81 5. 68 | 10. 00 TE By 
STO = 20 Me Sets ae Ee ae 2.10 97 1. 41 25. 50 2.10 4.17 11. 00 24. 26 
NOQQ=21EE- Sere ie Lie 3 1. 74 . 68 1. 20 13. 85 87 3. 27 12. 10 11. 36 
G2 —O De ea ee eee eS 81 .37 55 9. 51 93 2. 78 | 6. 00 6. 83 
O22 23 ease se CA eM 84 . 49 62 9. 93 | 47 3. 18 | 8. 28 10: 11 
O23 DAs: aa Sete? 79 . 46 63 Hake 10! | 65 3. 54 Tha 2M! 9. 46 
1 Averages 1911-12 to 1914-15. 
The yearly prices were obtained by weighting the monthly prices according to the monthly movement 
of the respective commodities to market. 
Compiled from data of Division, of Crop and Livestock Estimates, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
INDEX NUMBER OF PRICES TO PRODUCERS IN IDAHO 
1910-1914=100 for potatoes 
wheat, barley, oats, and 
clover seed. : 
1911-1914=100 for beans, and 
sugar beets. 
Year=August-July 
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! 19-12. $ 1913-14 ! 1915-16 | 1917-18 | 1919-20 | 1921-22 | 1923-24 | 
1910-1] 1912-13 © 1914-15 1916-17 1918-19 1920-"2l 1922-23 1924-25 
Fic. 6.—The crop year begins August 1. With the exception of potatoes, prices were fairly stable 
prior to and including the crop year 1915-16. Since that year price changes have been rather 
violent. (Compiled from the reports of the Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates) 
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