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planter, 534 on marking potato rows, 925 on dropping potatoes by 

 hand, 840 on covering seed potatoes, 382 on picking apples, 2,358 

 on grain binders, 771 on stacking grain from shock, 199 on harvesting 

 grain with header, 1,650 on shocking grain, 153 on thrashing flax, 

 80 on thrashing alfalfa or clover, 48 on thrashing timothy, 782 on 

 thrashing oats, 895 on thrashing wheat, 760 on harvesting corn with 

 a corn binder, 221 on harvesting corn with a platform cutter, 356 on 

 cutting and shocking corn by hand, 679 on tying and shocking corn 

 after a binder, 778 on husking corn from the shock, 689 on husking 

 standing corn continuously, 969 on husking, hauling, and unloading 

 standing corn, 1,750 on cultivating, 318 on digging Irish potatoes with 

 a digger, 169 on cutting seed potatoes with a cutter, 760 on cutting 

 seed potatoes by hand, 1,493 on grain drills, 1,224 on land rollers, 

 1,722 on planting corn and cotton with a planter, 386 on planting 

 corn with a hand planter, 358 on planting sweet potatoes, cabbage, 

 and tomatoes by hand, 100 on bean planters, 573 on broadcast 

 seeders, 145 on knapsack sowers, 212 on wheelbarrow sowers, 100 

 on spreading lime with a spreader, 160 on spraying fruit, 157 on spray- 

 ing field crops, 2,320 on mowing hay, 2,105 on raking, 539 on hay ted- 

 ders, 1,122 on cocking hay, 415 on stacking hay with sweep rakes, 

 459 on stacking hay without sweep rakes, 1,019 on hauling hay from 

 cocks to a barn, 407 on hauling hay using a hay loader, 427 on baling 

 hay with sweep power, 213 on baling hay with an engine, 226 on 

 plowing with a traction engine, and 4,402 on hauling produce to 

 market. 



A Normal Day's Work for Given Farm Operations. 



Out of 1,852 reports for walking plows 31 per cent use a 14-inch 

 implement, 27 per cent the 12-inch, about equal numbers use the 

 10 and 16 inch sizes, and only 19 per cent use other sizes than these. 

 Nearly twice as many report a depth of 6 inches as are reported 

 for any other depth, while nearly equal percentages are reported 

 for 5, 7, and 8 inch depths. This fact may be accounted for by the 

 general tendency of the human mind to employ round numbers in 

 discussing magnitudes not exactly known. In this case the actual 

 practice of farmers, if known, would doubtless cause these percentages 

 to be so distributed as to increase that for 5 and 7 and somewhat 

 reduce that for 6 inch depths. Teams of two horses are used by 

 73 per cent of farmers. The 3-horse teams are used chiefly on the 

 16-inch widths and on the 14-inch widths when plowing 7 or more 

 inches deep. 



When the walking-plow data were arranged by widths with the 

 depths averaged it was seen that the depth decreased as the width 



