AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE PRODUCTION OF CANNING CROPS 59 



marking one way. A few growers who made heavy applications of 

 fertilizer drilled a part and put the remainder in the row with a potato 

 planter. 



TABLE 60. HOURS REQUIRED, AND COST OF APPLYING FERTILIZER PER ACRE, BY 



DIFFERENT METHODS, 1920 



* Labor was charged at the average cost on all farms, 42 cents per -hour for man labor, 24.5 cents for 

 horse labor, and 8.2 cents for use of equipment. 



The plants are most commonly set in checkrows from 3 to 4 feet apart. 

 Hand-setting is the most usual method, altho on some farms a planter 

 is employed. The relative cost of the two methods is shown in table 61. 

 The time required to mark out also is saved when a machine is used. 

 When the plants are set by hand, the rows are usually furrowed out with 

 a cultivator or a shovel plow. 



TABLE 61. HOURS REQUIRED, AND COST OF SETTING BY DIFFERENT METHODS, 



133 FARMS, 1920 



* Labor was charged at the average cost on all farms, 42 cents per hour for man labor, 24.5 cents for 

 horse labor, and 8.2 cents for use of equipment. 



Two-horse cultivators were used to a greater extent than one-horse 

 cultivators. The average time per acre for each cultivation was 1.5 hours 

 when two horses were used and 3.3 hours when one horse was used. At 

 the average labor rates, the cost was about 80 cents per acre less for each 

 cultivation when two horses were used. 



The time required to perform the various operations in growing tomatoes 

 is combined into four groups in table 62. The man hours per acre were 

 slightly lower in the Chautauqua area than in the Orleans area, and 

 the horse hours were considerably lower. The greater use of tractors 

 in the Chautauqua area accounts for part of this difference. In the Chau- 

 tauqua area, tomatoes are grown on land that requires less fitting than 



