26 BULLETIN 578, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Work CxHart 24.—Alfalfa stacked with push rakes and stacker (Kansas). 
[This method is adapted to about 100 acres.] 
Operation required 
First day: 
Push raking... 
Push raking... 
Stacking...... 
Stacking 
Third day: 
Push raking... 
Push raking... 
Stacking..... ms 
Stacking...... 
Four men and 6 horses put up 26 tons (26 acres) in 2.50 days. Yield,1ton per acre. Man-hours3, team- 
hours 2.61 per ton. Labor cost, $1.12 yer ton. 
Mernuop 25. 
This method is used extensively in the prairie hay section of 
Oklahoma. It is not a very good one for the reason that only one 
sweep rake being used; the stacker is not kept very busy. Also, 
the rake is idle half of the day, and the stacker team and man driving 
it are idle over half of the time. If two mowers and two sweep 
rakes were used, the rake would be kept busy all day, and twice as 
much could be put into the stack without increasing the crew at the 
stack. Thus, the cost per ton would be lessened materially. (See 
method 31.) 
