24 BULLETIN 157, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
eastern half of the State, six owned and operated tractors for plowing 
and small amounts of other farm work. ~ 2 
The automobile now occupies an important place on North Dakota 
farms. Of 34 farmers, unselected, and located in the eastern half of 
the State, 27 operated cars of some kind, and one farmer kept two. 
The value of the car to the farm was determined largely by the 
distance from the market point. 
WHAT CREWS CAN DO. 
The amount of work that can be done in a normal day is important, 
especially in certain operations that must be done within a limited 
time. A very large part of the field work on North Dakota farms is 
done with one man and four horses. The number of acres per day 
covered by this crew in various operations is shown below: 
Acres 
per day. 
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One man and five horses with a gang plow turn 5.2 acres per day 
-and one man with six horses turns 5.5 acres per day. 
A few farmers visited used three horses in harvesting wheat, and 
covered an average of 10.6 acres per day. 
In shocking wheat one man can not quite keep up with a 4-horse 
binder, being able to set up 15.6 acres per day on the average. One 
man shocks 15.6 acres of oats or 17.8 acres of barley per day on the 
average. 
In hauling grain to market one man and two horses haul an aver- 
age of 132 bushels per day where the average length of haul is 6 
miles. Two loads are hauled of approximately 65 bushels each. 
Where the distance is within 4 miles the average day’s haul is 172 
bushels (three loads) and within 2 miles, 312 bushels (five loads). 
In haying, one man and two horses cut an average of 9 acres per 
day and rake 18 acres. 
In stacking grain various crews are used, but the two most com- 
mon are two men with one team and three men with two teams. 
The former crew stacks on the average 10.7 acres per day and the 
large crew stacks 14.3 acres of wheat of average yield of 12 bushels 
per acre. 
There is a wide variation in the size of crew and proportion of men 
to teams in stacking hay, determined rather by the available labor 
than by efficiency of crews. The average amount of tame hay stacked, 
