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TIME REQUIRED 



estimate of the time taken digging and plant- 

 ing. It will take an ordinary steady workman 

 about four days to dig over and three days to 

 plant a J acre lot (28 days to an acre). This 

 means persistent effort and continuity of pur- 

 pose. Many persons will spend from two to 

 five times as long and in fact never get through. 

 They lack patience or perseverance, or both." 



Mr. George T. Powell, the expert of the New 

 York Committee on the State of Agriculture, 

 says : "I think it will require thirty-seven days 

 to cultivate an acre, one-half potatoes, and the 

 balance in vegetables of an ordinary variety, in- 

 cluding the gathering of crops. If the crops 

 could be partly cultivated by horse power, the 

 days would be reduced four or five in number. 

 More labor is required on poor land without 

 fertilizers." 



Mr. Daniel B. Safford, an experienced gentle- 

 man farmer of White Plains, New York, figures 

 it at thirty-five days for an acre. 



We are safe, then, in counting thirty-six days 

 as the time needed for an ordinary able farmer 

 to cultivate a full acre plot. 



