June, 1940] 



Farm Management in Colebrook 



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MAN HOURS 

 400 



350 

 300 

 250 

 200 



LEGEND 



[] POTATOES 



^ HAEVE5T1NG OATS <"'<»' bAKLtY 



^ maK/uee 



H PLOW o"-^ MAPiaOW 

 m SEEDING 

 HAV 



I CHOBES 



FiciRi: 11. Labor requirements by ten-day periods on a farm with 27 



cows and 1 acre of potatoes. 



ment most of the crop season, the last of Jime and July 10 being" 

 somewhat slack. 



On the fourth farm (Fig. 14) with ^2 cows. 62 acres of hay, eight 

 acres of oats, 15 acres of silage, and six acres of potatoes, the dis- 

 tribution of labor requirement made use of available labor through 

 most of the crop season ; the last 10 days of Jime were slack. There 

 were peaks in amoimt of labor required in August and September. 

 The peak in August resulted from a combination of hay harvesting 

 and plowing for the next year's crop. The harvesting- of the silage 

 crop which furnishes 5S per cent of the feed units in the roughage 

 consumed on this farm accounted for the peak in September. 



Factors other than labor, of course, inust be considered, but a 

 study of these four farms indicate? the possibilities of combining 

 crops to use available labor. 



Adjustment problems 



Patterns of land ownership and control are seldom in complete 

 harmony with the most advantageous use of land. With better 

 practices and new developments in labor-saving machinery, with the 

 changes in the individual operator's experience, ability, and capital, 

 and with different price relationships, old patterns of land occupa- 



