16 BULLETIN 578, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Meruop 13. 
This method is in common use in New York on farms where the 
hay area is 60 acres orless. The objection to this method is that one 
man (A) gets through working (raking) at 4 o’clock in the afternoon 
and must remain idle or find some other profitable work to do with 
his team for two hours, a thing not always feasible. In the forenoon 
B, C, and D can work on other crops. A boy can be substituted for 
the man driving team while loading without lessening the efficiency 
of the crew. 
Work Cuart 13.—Timothy and clover loaded with loader; unloaded with horse fork 
(New York). 
[This method is adapted to 60 acres.] 
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Four men and 4 horses put up 6 tons (6 acres) perday. Yield, 1 ton peracre. Man-hours 3.75, team- 
hours 2.08 per ton. Labor cost, per ton, $1.166. 
MetnHop 14. 
This crew, using two teams to haul from the field, and a barn crew 
of two men, put in about the same amount of hay as the four-man 
crew in method 11. The small yield (only 1.25 tons per acre) and a 
longer haul made it necessary to use the second team for hauling in. 
This method is in common use in Lowa. 
Compare the labor required and cost of this method with No. 16, 
in which the tedder is used. In both methods the hay is not raked, 
but is taken directly from swath with loader. 
