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Mendelson 1 reports as follows results of a hearing 

 before the United States Food Administration at Fort 

 Morgan, Colorado, in 1918, on the work required in 

 raising sugar-beets : 



FIG. 29. Man labor on sugar-beets. (F. W. Peck.) 



"Spreading manure. Two men, four horses, and 

 spreader will spread 20 beet boxes of manure on two 

 acres in one day. 



"Crowning alfalfa (once in 4 years). One man and 

 five horses will crown three and one-half acres per day. 



"Harrowing the crowning twice (once in 4 years). One 

 man and three horses will harrow twenty acres per day. 



"Floating the crowning (once in 4 years). One man 

 and four horses will float 15 acres per day. 



1 Mendelson, H., 

 (April, 1918). 



A Day's Work,': Sugar, Vol. 20, p. 140 



