FACTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION 



by the following tables, taken from an excellent monograph by 

 H. W. Quaintance on " The Influence of Farm Machinery upon 

 Pr eduction and Labor." l 



DAY'S WORK NECESSARY TO PRODUCE BY HAND METHODS 



DAY'S WORK NECESSARY TO PRODUCE BY MACHINE METHODS 



Though the use of adequate tools and equipment is of the 

 first importance in agriculture, especially in a country where 

 farm labor is so scarce and wages so high as they are in this 

 country, yet no writer on this subject can do his whole duty 



1 Publications of the American Economic Association (3d series), Vol. V, 

 No. 4, p. 39. 



