COST OF PRODUCING SUGAR BEETS IN UTAH AND IDAHO. i 
TENURE OF FARMS SURVEYED. 
A large percentage of the farms visited were operated by owners. 
The percentage of owned farms ranged from 74.3 per cent in the Lehi 
district to 86.8 per cent in the Garland area. (Table II). The 
second largest group includes tenant farmers who paid a cash rent. 
The smallest number was in the Garland district; and the largest 
number in the Lehi. Relatively few farmers rented on a share basis. 
There was considerable variation in the methods of share renting 
which were employed on these few farms. The three-quarter share 
appeared to be the most common. 
Taste I1.—Distribution of acreage by tenure. 
Per cent of total beet acreage. 
Total z 
ise acres | 
Region. in One- | Two- | Three-| Three-| Four- Gash 
beets. |Owned.| half | thirds | fourths} fifths | fifths erie 
share. | share. | share. | share. | share. < 
LOG tey Cae EE sah ee ee ee ed 303. 50 TAL Sein we ate ERE ee ORG ene te Poe ae 25.0 
Granlanid SW tans oe) ee ice Sn ea 766. 00 86. 8 DD} Rieke gee ee al yee ats tee | one ae, eye 8.5 
Idaho Falisand Blackfoot, Idaho. ...| 892.30 ie PAeesae 1.4 PAO he seveeet eis 2.8 16.3 
cyan Halls: MANOS = ees ate a 687. 03 79.0 2.2 3.0 3.0 SDE pee creas | 11.6 
DISTRIBUTION OF FARM AND CROP AREA. 
There are at least three outstanding crops in these four districts— 
wheat, alfalfa, and sugar beets. A complete farm survey, including 
some 200 records from the Twin Falls area, indicates that field beans 
were somewhat more important than sugar beets during the year 
1919. Sugar beets can be grown profitably in these areas only on 
that part of the farm which is supplied with irrigation water. 
Alfalfa is grown chiefly on irrigated land. The small grains are 
adapted to the dry-land farms. 
In the initial survey made in Utah and Idaho the number of acres 
irrigated per farm was recorded, and from this the percentage of 
irrigated land devoted to sugar beets was determined. It was shown 
that approximately one-half the farm area in the Utah and Boxelder 
farms was irrigated and 35 to 42 per cent of the land under ditch was 
devoted to sugar beets. In the Idaho Falls area a much larger per- 
centage of the farm land was classified as under the ditch and the 
proportion of this area devoted to sugar beets approximated 26 per 
cent. Estimates were not obtained in the present survey as to the 
area under irrigation. However, an analysis was made of the dis- 
tribution of farm area and crop area. (Table III.) 
In addition to the three important crops which have been men- 
tioned, it should be noted that some attention is given to the potato 
in both of the Idaho areas. Oats are grown to some extent in the 
