GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN MICHIGAN AND OHIO. 45 
LABOR REQUIREMENTS. 
It is the general practice in all the areas studied to hire a part of 
the work on the sugar beets. Usually, if a man has more than 5 acres 
in beets all of the handwork is performed by hired help on an acre- 
contract basis." In some instances the hoeing was done by the farmer 
and his family, and the topping was hired; in other cases the hoeing 
was hired and the topping performed by the farmer. Where a very 
small acreage of beets was grown, usually none of the handwork was 
contracted. As stated previously, the contract labor was paid at a 
stipulated rate per acre or per ton. This contract expenditure has 
been changed to its equivalent in man‘hours by a computation assum- 
ing a rate of 25 cents per hour as the value of man labor. (See Table 
XXX.) 
TABLE XXN.—Labor requirements in producing an acre of sugar beets. 
| 
Wistrice. Acres Yield per | Hoursof | Hoursof 
grown. acre. man labor. |horse labor. 
(CERO cs Reel RRR RE Ae a SY OR WA aU One So i areca ae ne ie ea 2,018 9.72 105. 5 80. 68 
BAN TTA acs met nese bata celna MRE VCS n Msone iid ied ae ee ut tre 506 11.40 114.8 95.34 
Grande aie Series see seen yee ete ua a meer mn yeges PNOeL 230 10.16 111.3 93.88 
INOrthiwesternk Ohi oun sss a-mee mien sll eae eens gee od 1,525 13517, 113.4 7@. 21 
The number of horse hours spent at Caro and in northwestern Ohio 
are approximately the same, as are the hours for Alma and Grand 
Rapids. However, more labor was required in the former than in 
the latter areas. 
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