Table D-1. Labor Productivity in Catching and Crating Live Broilers 

 and Loading Crates on Trucks, by Crew Size. 



* Include? driver of truck being loaded, foreman of crew, and pickup labor. 



Zwick and King took detailed time records of the pickup operation 

 on broiler farms and reported their results under three headings : prepar- 

 ing to load, loading, and preparing to leave.- They used time records 

 from 21 loads of poultry in the collection of which an average of six men 

 was used and this crew went to the farm, loaded a truck, and returned. 

 Their regression equations for each of the three activities were: 



Preparation to load at farms: 

 M in 22 + 4.296X 



Loading: 



M = -33 + 52.382X 



Preparation to leave farm: 

 M = 23 + 1.688X 



Where: 



M = man minutes 



X = size of load in thousands of pounds 



Combining all of these three straight line regression equations yields 

 a productivity of 1,044 pounds per man hour. This does not include the 



- Competitive Position of the Connecticut Poultry Industry, 5. The Economic Ad- 

 vantage of Location in Marketing Live Poultry, C. J. Zwick and R. A. King, Storrs 

 Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 293, 1952. 



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