GROWING SUGAR BEETS IX UTAH AXD IDAHO. 11 
per acre are not far apart. The Provo district shows a very striking 
correspondence in the acreage and cash returns, but there is a slight 
difference in the yield per acre reported by the two methods. The 
Idaho Falls records indicated some variation in the yield per acre, 
and this is reflected in the cash return per acre. Fewer estimates 
were obtained in the Idaho Falls area than in either of the other 
districts. 
METHOD OF PRESENTING DATA. 
The subject matter in this bulletin was prepared in two parts. 
The first section deals with the major and minor operations performed 
by the Utah-Idaho growers in producing the 1914 and 1915 beet 
crops. Each operation is treated separately. While the farm prac- 
tice studies as a whole are applicable to 173 estimates, the different 
methods which are described are not all followed on all farms. Plowing, 
cultivating, and harvesting were operations common to all records, 
but the soil tillage subsequent to plowing varied considerably. This 
was true not only with such work as harrowing, disking, leveling, and 
rolling, but it was also noticeable in the management of the hand 
labor. In presenting the farm-practice data the district was taken 
as the unit, and the results have been compiled so as to show the aver- 
age crew, average labor requirements, and average cost per acre for 
each of the three areas studied. 
The second part of this bulletin includes a study of the total cost 
of production. Here the total cost of man labor and horse labor, the 
total expense connected with the purchase of materials, and all other 
costs, are combined for the purpose of showing the actual cost of pro- 
ducing an acre or a ton of sugar beets on the fields which were culti- 
vated by these growers. The different costs are distributed over the 
entire beet acreage for these farms. The practice sheets show the 
actual acreage covered, and the labor requirements as well as the 
acre charge are worked out on this basis. When the cost for each of 
these items is charged against the entire beet crop, a lower figure is 
shown. As a matter of fact, the entire crop must bear any expense 
that may apply to a part of the acreage. 
CROP ROTATION. 
The question of rotating the farm crops has been given some atten- 
tion in the Provo, Garland, and Idaho Falls districts. While it is 
true that there are some farms in each area where individual crops 
are grown continuously upon the same land, the value of systematic 
cropping has been recognized in each district, and several fairly defi- 
nite plans may be found in actual practice. Some men are limited 
by the number of crops which may be grown under their individual 
conditions, consequently they do not have an opportunity to give 
the land a change at frequent intervals. Some farms contain dry 
