STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 



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ing contlitions. Table XTV f^ivcs a suinmury of these estimates. 

 Nearly all corn cut for fodder is put into shocks, either 12, 11, or 16 

 hills square, over two-thirds of the reports stating that it was the 

 common practice to make shocks containing 196 hills (14 by 14). 

 The most common performance reported when making shocks of this 

 size was 20 shocks per day, but nearly as many men reported 25 and 

 30 shocks, practically three- fourths of the reports giving one or 

 another of those three figures. (See fig. 5.) 



Fig. 6. — Where eouditiouw are I'avorable, the corn binder increases the efficiency of 



man labor 50 per cent. 



Table XIV. — Cutting and shocking corn by hand (one man). 



Number 

 of reports. 



Size of shocks. 



Acres 

 covered 

 per day. 



1.2S 



202 



14 1, 196, and 256 hills 





Yields of from 40 to 65 bushels were reported, but the variations 

 in yield apparently were not great enough to affect the ground covered 

 per day. 



THE CORN BINDER. 



An average day's work for corn binders drawn by two, three, and 

 four horses is given in Table XV, (See fig. 6.) A majority of the 

 binders were drawn by three horses, this unit doing on an average 

 about 10 per cent more per da}'^ than the 2-horse unit. More than 



