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Other field work. — All horse labor used for field operations other 

 than those listed above is included under this item in Table 21. 

 This work consisted of such operations as planting, cultivating, and 

 harvesting potatoes, tomatoes, and sugar beets; applying fertilizer 

 and sowing grass seed wherever done as separate operations; and 

 hulling clover seed. While on the average this work was not impor- 

 tant, on some of the farms more horse labor was used on it than on 

 part of the operations that have been listed separately. In all, 

 107 of the 286 men used horses for some work of this character 

 and on these 107 farms it amounted to 12 days on the average. 



Hauling manure. — -The amount of horse labor used for this work 

 varied greatly on individual farms, depending upon the number and 

 kinds of live stock kept, the methods of feeding, and the disposition 

 of the manure. On the average more horse labor was used for 

 hauling manure than for any other field operation except cultivating 

 and harvesting corn. In Seneca County, Ohio, where the acreage 

 in corn was low, more horse labor was used for manure hauling than 

 for either corn cultivation or corn harvest. 



Miscellaneous work on the farm. — Under this heading in Table 2 1 

 is placed all horse labor used on the farm itself which is not classified 

 elsewhere. It includes such work as hauling stover from the field 

 to the barn or feed lot, hauling straw from the stack to the barn, 

 moving feed or hauling feed and water for live stock, hauling wood, 

 building and repairing fences, mowing weeds, and work in the 

 orchard and garden. Most of this work was done at times when 

 field work was not pressing and a large part of it was light work, 

 but on the average horses were used on it for a greater length of 

 time than on hauling manure. 



Road hauling. — All of the horse labor used for hauling produce 

 from the farm and supplies to the farm, excepting the comparatively 

 small amount used in hauling grain directly from the separator to 

 to market, is included here. In the two Indiana areas a considerable 

 portion of this hauling was done with motor trucks (see page 7) 

 and on that account the amount of horse labor used for road hauling 

 there was less than in other areas. 



Custom work. — -Some of the farmers interviewed had hired out 

 horses to neighboring farmers or had used them for building or 

 repairing roads during the year. The figures in Table 20 show the 

 average amount of such work done per farm in the different areas. 

 The workstock on 33 of the farms had done some such work during 

 the year, and while for all farms this work amounted to an average of 

 2.6 days, it amounted to an average of over 22 days for the 33 farms. 



Horse labor hired. — Twenty-three of the men interviewed had 

 hired some of the horse labor which was used on their farms during 

 the year. The amount of horse labor used for the various operations 



