FARM MANAGEMENT ON IRRIGATED FARMS 19 
Table 10. — Percentage of total crop area in each crop, 1921 and 
Percentage of total crop area 
Crop 
Small farms 
Medium-sized T „„„„ 
farms i Lar ^ 
farms 
1921 
1922 
1921 
1922 
1921 
1922 
Alfalfa 
Potatoes _. _ . 
58 
20 
6 
5 
4 
1 
4 
2 
59 
22 
5 
6 
2 
3 
__ 
58 
20 
8 
4 
2 
2 
2 
4 
58 
19 
9 
5 
2 
3 
1 
3 
61 
13 
13 
3 
4 
1 
1 
4 
54 
21 
Wheat . _ 
Corn (all) 
11 
Other grain 
Rutabagas 
Sugar beets - 
Other crops . 
2 
2 
1 
4 
Total 
Number 
100 
Farms 
26 
100 
Farms 
33 
100 
Farms 
60 
100 
Farms 
67 
100 
Farms 
25 
100 
Farms 
39 
Hazards involved in the overexpansion of potatoes are indicated 
by the percentage of the total production sold in 1921 and 1922. 
On the average, only half of the 1922 potato crop on the medium- 
sized farms was sold; 58 per cent and 60 per cent of the crop was 
sold on the large and small farms, respectively. 
Rutabaga production was encouraged in 1921 by favorable con- 
tracts, fair prices, and good yields, but the unsatisfactory prices 
offered for the 1922 crop lowered the enthusiasm of many farmers 
who have encouraged the production of this new crop in the valley. 
Corn for grain was grown by about half of the farmers on the me- 
dium and large farms and by a somewhat smaller proportion of the 
operators of small farms. Since most of the corn produced is fed on 
the farm, a high corn acreage is indicative of considerable livestock 
on farms. 
Good yields of corn are obtainable on most farms; but consider- 
able variation, due largely to wireworms, exists in yields, especially 
on many of the older farms. 
Sugar beets are not generally important on the farms visited, as 
shown by the number of farms growing the crop and the yields ob- 
tained, as indicated in table 11. 
LIVESTOCK ON FARMS 
Livestock was comparatively unimportant on many of the farms 
visited, as shown in Table 12. It is surprising to find that more at- 
tention was not given to livestock on the smaller farms, since the 
proportion of crop area devoted to the principal crops was about the 
same for the three size groups. The operators of the small farms 
also sold nearly half of their hay production on the average. One 
explanation for this small amount of livestock on farms of 20 to 30 
acres might be that, since several of the operators were considerably 
above the average in age, and looked upon their farms as homes 
rather than as businesses, they were not so seriously concerned with 
the most economical utilization of labor and other resources as would 
be the case with younger men. 
