UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 693 
Joint Contribution from the Office of Farm Management, 
W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief, and the Bureau of 
Plant Industry, W. A. Taylor, Chief. 
Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
July 16, 1918 
FARM PRACTICE IN GROWING SUGARBEETS FOR 
THREE DISTRICTS IN UTAH AND IDAHO, 1914-1915. 
By L. A. Moorhouse, Agriculturist, and T. H. Summers and R. S. Washburn, 
Scientific Assistants, Office of Farm Management, and James W. Jones, Agricul- 
turist, Office of Sugar-Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. 
CONTENTS, 
Page. 
Summary of results 1 
Object 2 
Procedure 3 
Cooperation 4 
Areas studied 4 
Size of farm in relation to beet acreage 8 
Relation of beet acreage to irrigated area — 9 
Comparison of farm estimates with factory 
records 10 
Method of presenting data 11 
Crop rotation 11 
Value of man labor and horse labor 14 
Farm practice in the production of sugar 
beets, and related costs 15 
Cost of producing sugar beets 35 
Value of tops 40 
Beet acreage per farm and yield per acre in 
relation to cost 41 
Comparison of beet receipts with other farm 
receipts 42 
Relation of yield to cost of production 42 
The data presented in this bulletin are based upon 173 farm esti- 
mates. Three typical districts are represented in this study, namely, 
Provo, in Utah County, Utah; Garland, in Boxelder County, Utah; 
and Idaho Falls, in Bonneville County, Idaho. The observations 
which were made are directly applicable to the crop years 1914 and 
1915. At Provo and Garland practically all of the farmers who 
gave estimates during the year 1914 also contributed information 
for the crop year beginning April 1, 1915. 
SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 
The most important differences in the field practice employed in 
the three areas studied were found in such operations as manuring, 
plowing, disking, harrowing with the spring-tooth, cultivating (some 
using a 1-man-l-horse crew and others a l-man-2-horse crew) and 
performing the hand labor (some utilizing the available farm help 
while others had this done on a contract basis). 
55051°— 18— Bull. 
