UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 1000 



Contribution from the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics 

 G. W. FORSTER, Acting Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



December 30, 1921 



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LABOR AND MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS 

 OF FIELD CROPS 



By 



L. A. MOORHOUSE, Associate Farm Economist 

 O. A. JUVE, Junior Farm Economist \ 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



Method of presentation 4 



Corn ■ 5 



Corn silage . . . .' 8 



Cotton . . \ 11 



Potatoes 15 



Sugar beets 19 



Tobacco 22 



Beans 25 



Grain sorghums 28 



Wheat, spring and winter 29 



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Oats 33 



Barley 36 



Rye .• 38 



Hay 40 



Grass seed crops 45 



Apples 46 



Miscellaneous crops 49 



Method of using foregoing data . . . 51 



Value of plow lands 53 



Labor distribution among farm enter- . 

 prises 54 



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