44 WE FARM FOR A HOBBY 



Harvesting corn 104 hours. But it depends on 

 how good the crop is. It is autumn work. 



Garden and orchard 260 hours. A bit of this is 

 winter tree-trimming and spraying, but so little that 

 it can be safely regarded as ten hours a week through 

 the six summer months. 



All this divides itself up according to seasons. 

 Of course it never runs into an exact division or 

 routine because nature does not work that way. 

 What with gardening and haying, the long hours 

 are in the summer; but then, with the sheep and 

 cows at pasture, there is no work of keeping their 

 stables clean. And the long summer days provide 

 the necessary light for the extra outdoor work. 

 With the exception of woodcutting the winter 

 work is indoor work, and can be done by artifi- 

 cial light. 



That there is other work to be done on the 

 farm beside what my man does is obvious. 



"What," you will probably ask, "do you do?" 



Well, mostly I superintend. Huck Finn might 

 have said of me as of Tom Sawyer: "He could out- 

 superintend any boy I ever see." There is little 

 actual labor-bossing to be done; a man who needs 

 it is no good to you on the farm "nur nowurs 

 else." If I were doing the work, the time now spent 

 on supervision would be eliminated entirely, and 

 most of the planning now done at a desk could 



