﻿NOKMAL DAYS WORK FOR VARIOUS FARM OPERATIONS. 



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Table XXXIX. — A normal day's work in husking corn, by one man, giving the average 

 daily work factors, in bushels of ears, according to the yield per acre. 



[Net hours at work, 9.58.] 



Operation. 



Yield per acre. 



Husked 



Number 



per day. 



averaged. 



Bushels. 





42.67 



222 



45.92 



336 



54.48 



220 



76.2 



224 



85.97 



318 



87.14 



147 



50.26 



388 



68.05 



450 



69.73 



131 



Adjusted 



factor 

 per day. 



Husking from shock 



Husking from standing stalks continuously. 



Husking, hauling, and unloading, from standing 

 stalks. 



1 to 40 bushels 



41 to 60 bushels 



61 bushels and over 



1 to 40 bushels 



41 to 60 bushels 



61 bushels and over... 



1 to 40 bushels 



41 to 60 bushels 



61 bushels and over... 



HARVESTING POTATOES. 



In Table XL harvesting potatoes with plows and diggers is grouped 

 by the method employed and number of horses used. The reported 

 acreages have been reduced 10 per cent in arriving at the adjusted 

 acreage in the last column of the table. For plowing out Irish pota- 

 toes with an ordinary plow, about equal numbers, out of the 108 

 which were averaged, reported 1, 2, 3, and 4 acres. Potato rows are 

 often planted in every other furrow of the ordinary 12 or 14 inch plow, 

 and the work of plowing them out is done more carefully than simple 

 field plowing. Twice the daily duty of a 2-horse walking plow being 

 about 3.70, the allowance for the care required in the plowing of pota- 

 toes should reduce this acreage toward that given in the average, 

 indicating that the factor 2.40 is substantially correct. In digging 

 Irish potatoes with an elevator digger a 3-horse team is not often 

 used, but the 4-horse team is almost as general as two horses. The 

 acreage increases with increase of power, each additional horse adding 

 about 20 per cent to the amount done daily. A digger drawn by two 

 horses appears to be 40 per cent more efficient from the standpoint of 

 acreage covered in a day than the ordinary 2-horse plow, but two 

 horses are probably much overloaded by this implement. Meager data 

 on digging sweet potatoes with a sweet-potato plow are also included 

 in the table. Since sweet potatoes are planted in rows as much as 

 twice the distance apart given to Irish potatoes, it is apparent from 

 comparing these data with that for plowing out Irish potatoes that 

 the deeper and wider furrow should result in an acreage for this 

 operation about equal to the average of 3.60 reported in the table. 



