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Fi(.rnK 7. Winter and summer chore schedule showing how one opera- 

 tor divided his day among the various farm operations. 



of milk. \\ ith milk wholesaling for about $1.50 per 100 pounds, the 

 return ])er hour for chore work was, of course, rather low . In the 

 Grafton county stud}' two years earlier,* an avc'ra<^e of 2.9 hours per 

 100 pounds was required. 



Detailed chore records were made on 10 farms. Tlic travel of 

 the o])erators was recorded \)\ laying down strin^^s on a mounted 

 floor jjlan of the barn. The time for each ])ractice was noted with a 

 stop watch. A study of the chore record charts (not shown in the 

 bulletin) reveals a great deal of travel in chore work on all farms 

 studied. On one farm particularly, the arrangement of the liarn was 

 such that the cows were scattered and each o])eration in turn re- 

 (juired cf)nsiderable travel. In a well-designed barn a crew of two 

 men could do the work as advantageously as three men could do it 

 in this l)arn. 



There were marked (lifferences in the u.se of machines as shown in 

 Table II. Operator 1" had the machines on the cows about half as 

 long as operator .\ but put .7 of a minute more i)er cow dailv on 



•Hnllctin 275, "Efficiency Studies in Dairy F.irniing," H. C. Woodworth, C. W. Harris, Jr., and 

 Emil Rauchcnstcin. New H;iniiishire AKric.iltural Experiment Station in Cooperation with 

 the flurcaii of Agricultural F'concmiics. I'nited States Dciiartinent of Agriculture. 



