OCR Text |
Show CROP STATISTICS OF IDAHO COMPILED MAJL.AD. Idaho, April 2? The relative rel-ative profits and losses of seven of the leading rops in southern Idaho (a Isbown in a bulletin Issued by the I nl-! nl-! ersity of Idaho The BUrvej WSS ! made on irrigated lands in thi--tlon and covers the years of 1919 and 1?20. Net losses were shown in 1920 expected because, of the high OSts of the use of land labor etc., and the I tremendous .-lump in the price of pro- ! duce. The bulletin shows there i- a verj wlde rani;-' In the cost of producing itho seven crops. In 1919 the cdsl ol producing a pound of alslke i lovi I seed varied from lf to 31 cent... .i I pound of red clover seed from G Tv cents; a pound of beuns from 0 to cents; a ton of alfalfa hay from $7.:iri to $39.40, a ton of sugar beets from 8 to $3H. loo pounds of potatoes from ' 6 1 cents to $2.r.3. and a bushel of wheat from J1.0X to $2 78. The bulletin shows that there is a very close relation between the cost I per bushel, pound ton. or hundred .weight and the yield per acre, in the ease of each crop without exception, i the cost per unit decreases as the yield per acre Increases |