14 THE NEW BUSINESS OF FABMING 



horse could care for was unchanged. The sav- 

 ing was in the time of the driver. 



If one man tries to care for ten cows and 

 two horses, the team will be idle much of the 

 time while the man is doing chores. But if 

 two men care for twenty cows and four horses, 

 the team can be kept busy all the time and there 

 will be a direct saving in the time required for 

 the care of the cows, for it does not take twice 

 as long to look after twenty cows as it does to 

 care for ten. The economic unit of man labor 

 on a farm is not one man but two. The economic 

 unit of horse labor is not a two-horse team, but 

 a four-horse team. 



This brings us to the unit of size for the 

 farm. It should have at least enough acres to 

 keep two men and four horses busy all the year 

 round. Upon this as a basis we can build until 

 we strike other factors which limit the profit- 

 able size. 



Labor on a farm cannot be organized as can 

 that in a factory. It is of a character that re- 

 quires individual initiative and is rarely of a 

 kind so that a gang of men can work together. 



