2 BULLETIN 963, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
by side. The man-labor and horse-labor requirements are given | 
by operations for each of the four districts. The total average 
labor requirement is also analyzed by districts. 
The farms included in this study derive the major part of their | 
receipts from crop enterprises. Live-stock receipts exceeded 20 
per cent of the total farm receipts in one district only. In the Lehi | 
and Garland districts the sugar beet was the outstanding crop | 
IDAHO 
Shelley§ Idaho Falls 
Blackfoot 
m Areas studied 
Z Beet sugar factories 
1918 - 1919 
I’'iq@. 1.—Location of areas surveyed. 
enterprise, slightly more than 60 per cent of the total crop receipts 
coming from this source. 
SCOPE AND METHOD OF STUDY. 
This investigation, conducted primarily for the purpose of deter- — 
mining the individual farm costs involved in producing sugar beets 
during the years 1918 and 1919, is a continuation of work that was 
done in this field in 1915 and 1916. In planning and developing © 
these studies the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics ~ 
