8 BULLETIN 1421, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
be cleared and leveled sufficiently to permit of irrigation. Ditches 
for delivering the water from the canals to the land also had to be 
built. In considering the sales value of the land as shown in Figure 
5, it should be remembered that the sales for the earlier years, in the 
main, represent land that was but little improved. In some cases 
it represents only the relinquishment of the homestead right. The 
sales made during the later years generally represent well-developed 
land with buildings and a paid-up water right. The increase in land 
value, therefore, is partially due to the addition of improvements. 
SALES VALUE PER ACRE OF REAL ESTATE FOR TWO-YEAR PERIODS 
DOLLARS 
R 
O 
1905-06 ‘07-08 ’09-'10 "M-"1l2 "13-"14 15-16 17-18 "19-20 *2l-22 
Fic. 5.—The values of real estate for the earlier years covered by this figure are for raw land or land 
that was little improved; for the later years the values usually represent well-developed farm land 
CHANGES IN IDAHO CROP PRICES, 1910-11 TO 1923-24 
Average prices to producers in Idaho are shown in Table 2 for 
wheat, oats, barley, clover seed, and potatoes from 1910-11 to 
1923-24; for beans and sugar beets from 1911-12 to 1923-24; and 
for alfalfa hay from 1915-16 to 1923-24. Yearly average: prices 
were obtained by weighting the average monthly prices for each 
year according to the monthly movement of each crop to market. 
Figure 6 presents these prices, except for alfalfa hay, in percentages 
of base prices. Averages from 1910-11 to 1914-15 are the base 
prices used for all crops except beans and sugar beets. For these 
two crops, averages from 1911-12 to 1914-15 furnished the base. 
Since no prices for alfalfa hay are available prior to 1915-16, alfalfa 
is omitted from Figure 6. There probably was some variation 
between average prices for the State as a whole and the prices Twin 
Falls farmers received, but the data presented in Table 2 and Figure 
6 should reflect price conditions at Twin Falls very closely. 
