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other than the operator. Allowing for this, it would ap- 

 pear that a man farms over twice the area on the farms 

 of 175-259 acres as on the 50 to 99-acre farms. The 

 Census figures do not give the crop yields that result, but 

 from the work in New York, it would appear that the crop 

 yields are likely to be as good on the larger farms. 



Table 45 shows how the farmers of America have in- 

 creased the area of crops raised per male worker. The 

 area per horse has not changed much. The farmers are 

 driving more horses per man and so saving man-time. 

 They are driving a third more horses per man, and raising 

 a third more acres of crops per worker, than the farmers 

 did in 1880. This table would seem to indicate that im- 

 proved machinery has not saved horse-time, feut has saved 

 man-time, because one man drives more horses. 



TABLE 45. INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF FARMERS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES l 



1 Twelfth Census, Vol. V, p. xxxi. The crops included are buck- 

 wheat, barley, corn, rice, oats, rye, wheat, hay, tobacco, cotton, hops, 

 and sugar cane. These are the only crops reported for every year. 

 Other crops reported in 1900 averaged 1.2 additional acres per male 

 worker, and 0.5 per horse. 



The table does not include all the minor crops, because 

 some of them were not reported before 1900. The area of 

 all crops in 1900 averaged 33 acres per male worker. 



