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management will have a right to question the wisdom of cutting wood 

 that day in June which might have been used in repairing the binder 

 and thus resulted in the saving of valuable tune in July. 



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Dlstrlbutlon of man labor on 30% acres ot corn. This crop demands much labor during the period when the small trains require no atten- 

 tion but competes with tobacco for labor during the period ol planting and cultivation. This field demanded .l hours of man labor and (an 



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cultivation but on the other band It made large demands fop labor at times 

 and tobacco harvest did not conflict. The corn was cut (or (odder but It It 

 tobacco demanded 1M.1 hours of man labor per acre and yielded a profit of 



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when other crops demand no attention. On this firm corn harvest 

 been cut (or silage there might have been a conflict. Th 

 l per acre or 9 cents per hour of man labor. 



The problem of crop selection may be illustrated and further 

 elaborated by the study of Figs. 14-19. It happens that the farmer 

 for whom these records were tabulated produced barley, oats, spring 



