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and with the system of harvesting in vogue there is no trouble about 

 getting all the wheat cut and thrashed that a farmer can grow. When 

 harvest is over it is about time to begin sowing a new crop on the land 

 that was plowed in the spring. 



The only way the cotton grower can get into the class of the wheat 

 grower from the standpoint of income is by hiring a large amount of 

 human labor at low wages for the two hand operations the cotton 

 crop requires. As a result of this condition, most of the cotton is 

 grown under a tenant system by poor people, while wheat is grown by 

 the owner of the land himself, who is usually a well-to-do farmer. 

 This applies, of course, only to the localities where the methods out- 

 lined are practiced. 



A financial comparison of the two one-man systems of farming is 

 shown in Table I. 



TABLE I 



COMPARISON OF Two ONE-MAN SYSTEMS OF SINGLE-CROP FARMING 



* The farm expenses other than rent, depreciation, and interest on crop equipment are not here 

 taken into account. Hence the labor income given is not the net income, 

 t Twenty acres at $3 . 60. 

 J Seven bales from 20 acres. 

 Three hundred and twenty acres at $3 . 60. 

 1 1 Four thousand eight hundred bushels (from 160 acres) at 60 cents. 



113. ECONOMY OF HORSE LABOR 1 

 BY G. F. WARREN 



The economical use of horse labor is as important as man labor. 

 In Minnesota, in 1907, the cost of an hour's work of a team in different 

 counties varied from 15 to 22 cents per hour (see table). Man labor 

 averaged about 12 cents. The time of the team is, therefore, worth 

 much more than the time of the driver. Where feed is worth more, 

 the difference is still greater. There are few, if any, regions in the 



1 Adapted from Farm Management, pp. 344-49. (Copyright by the Macmillan 

 Company.) 



