UTILIZING FARM LABOR 



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may be made more ideal. (6) For a systematic rotation, the plan 

 should provide for a series of fields about equal in size. 



Utilizing Farm Labor. One of the greatest sources of loss on 

 the average farm is the failure to utilize the available man labor 

 and horse labor to the best advantage. It is lying idle too many 

 days in the year. Work for stormy days is seldom provided. ~ 



On 



Fio. 301. 



FIG. 302. 



FIELD I 

 1OA 



8 

 8A 



5 



12A 



2 

 13A 



3 

 17A 



6 

 5A 



4 

 25A 



7 

 1OA 



FIELD 1 



20 A 



20 A 



6 

 5A 



FARMSTEAD 



15 A 



20 A 



4 



20 A 



Fia. 301. Map of 100-acre farm too much cut up into small fields. (Agriculture and Life.) 



FIG. 302. The farm of the preceding figure remapped to save distance to fields and to save 



fence material. (Agriculture and Life.) 



dairy farms the man labor is usually well employed throughout 

 the year, but in market gardening, fruit growing and the rais- 

 ing of field crops, there is little to do when the weather or soil 

 conditions are unfavorable. Where there are occasional stormy 

 days, work should be planned along the following lines: Grinding 

 tools, grinding feed, cleaning out poultry houses, white-washing 

 interiors of buildings, disinfecting barns, reglazing of broken 

 windows, using the fanning mill in cleaning seed, repairing and 

 painting machinery, wagons and carriages, shoeing horses, trim- 



