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Colorado Experiment Station. 
Cost of Growing Sugar Beets. 
Sugar beets were produced for feed upon the College Farm 
two years of the period. Table No. 50 summarizes the man, horse 
and machinery costs, together with miscellaneous other items of 
cost. 
(See page 29.) 
Cost of Growing Wheat. 
Wheat has only been produced upon the College Farm two 
years of the period . In 1911 the wheat harvested came from shat¬ 
tered seed. It was thus volunteer wheat and was allowed to remain 
upon the land because alfalfa was seeded thereon. The crop re¬ 
corded, therefore, is a volunteer crop for 1911. Table No. 51 sum¬ 
marizes the various items of cost for growing wheat for the two 
years, 1910 and 1911. 
’ (See page 30.) 
It would seem to be of sufficient interest at this point to sum¬ 
marize some of the labor costs for particular farm operations. 
These summary costs are the averages obtained for each of the op¬ 
erations for all of the years in which they were performed in the 
four-year period, 1910-1913, inclusive. In obtaining the average 
number of man hours and the average number of horse hours, the 
total hours work for the particular operation for the entire period 
and the total acres upon which that operation was performed for the 
entire period are taken as the basis of computation. Thus we have 
in the case of plowing, Table No. 52, an average man labor acre 
cost of 6.23 hours and an average horse labor cost of 19.15 hours 
Charging at the rate of 20 cents an hour for man labor and I2j4 
cents an hour for horse labor, the average cost per acre was $3.64 
for plowing for the four-year period. A careful examination of 
these figures with scattered data obtained from other farms and 
localities would indicate that this is very near to average farm re¬ 
quirements where plowing of similar character is done. 
TABLE No. 52. 
AVERAGE LABOR COST PER ACRE—PLOWING.-' - 
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Average 1910-1913, Inclusive. 
Average Man Hours 
Average Horse Hours 
Average Cost 
Horse and Man Labor 
6.23 
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19.15 
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$3.64 
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