APPENDIX 1 

 DOCUMENT RELATING TO LABOR 



List of Tasks and Number of Man-days' Required for the Crops Grown in the Town of Panajaehel, Dept. of Solold 



Milpa: 



New land: 



Clearing 1 cuerda of the stony land 



of the hills 2 days. 



Making a fire-lane around 5 cuerdas. . 1 day. 



Burning 5 cuerdas Do. 



Old land: Stubbling the field (rastrojear) , 



1 cuerda in Do. 



All land: 



Cleaning the field (chaporrear) , 1 



cuerda in Do. 



Planting the maize, 2 cuerdas in Do. 



Replanting ungerminated seeds, 10 



cuerdas in Do. 



First cultivation (limpio) of 1 cuerda 



bad land in the delta 2 days. 



Second cultivation of 1 cuerda bad 



land in the delta Do. 



Harvesting 2 cuerdas far from town.. 1 day. 

 Three trips carrying maize to the 



house in Do. 



Stacking 10 net-bags of maize in 



granary Do. 



(General harvest per cuerda: 3- 

 mesh bags, or loads) 

 Truck Farming: 



Making tablones for growing vegetables (8 

 tablones each 3 varas wide by 32 varas 

 long are made from 1 cuerda of land) : 



Scraping 1 cuerda 2 days. 



Watering 1 cuerda before making 



tablones 1 day. 



Hoeing and preparing 1 tabldn 2 days. 



Onion Seedlings (in tablones) : 



Applying fertilizer to 1 labUn Do. 



Planting and covering with leaves, 



1 tabldn Do. 



First cultivation, 1 tabldn 4 days. 



Second cultivation, 1 tabldn Do. 



Pulling up seedlings of 1 tabldn and 



preparing them for transplanting.. Do. 

 (Seedlings are watered every day for 

 45 days during the dry season; then 

 for 15 days they are watered every 

 3 days.) 



' The time is figured on the basis of what an industrious, full-grown man can 

 do. The cuerda is always 32 raraa square. 



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Truck Farming — Continued 

 Transplanting Onions: 



Smoothing and planting 1 tabldn 2 days. 



Watering 2 cuerdas of onions 1 day. 



First cultivation of 1 tabldn 2 days. 



Second cultivation of 1 tabldn Do. 



Pulling up onions of 1 tabldn and ar- 

 ranging in bunches Do. 



(Onions remain 4 months in the 

 tabldn and are watered twice weekly.) 

 Garlic (in tablones) : 



Preparing the seed for 1 cuerda Do. 



Planting 1 tabldn 1 day. 



One (only) cultivation of 1 tabldn 2 days. 



Watering two cuerdas 1 day. 



Pulling up and carrying home of garlic 



of 1 tabldn Do. 



Before selling, braiding 15 bunches... Do. 

 (1 tabldn produces 40 bunches. Garlic 

 is watered twice weekly, and always 

 sunned 5 days before braiding.) 

 Black ground-beans (in tablones) : 



Planting 1 cuerda of beans 2 days. 



One (only) cultivation of 1 cuerda 3 days. 



Watering 2 cuerdas 1 day. 



Pulling up and carrying home dried 



beans of 1 cuerda Do. 



Sunning and threshing beans of 1 



cuerda 2 days. 



(Black ground-beans remain in the 

 tablones 3 months; they are watered 

 twice weekly.) 

 Black pole-beans (in tablones) : 



(Same time as for ground-beans with 

 the following additional.) 



Finding and bringing poles for 1 



tabldn Do. 



Placing the poles in 1 tabldn 1 day. 



(Black pole-beans remain in the 

 tablones 4 months; watered 

 twice weekly.) 



Cabbage, Beets, Turnips, Lettuce, Meta- 

 bel, Swiss chard (in tablones) : Require 

 the same work as the growing of onion 

 seedlings and their transplanting 



