STANDARD DAY S WOKK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 



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man is al)Oiil SO per cent ^roatci- (liaii if thoy wei'e ciiMin^ and shock- 

 ing by hand. That more corn })iii(k'rs arc not in use in this section is 

 due to the fact that these machines are expensive, and the compara- 

 tively small amount of work for them to do, often less than a day 

 per year, in a great many cases increases the cost per acre cut enough 

 to offset this gain in efficiency of man labor. 



HUSKING CORN. 



Most of the corn grown in tliis section is husked from the standing 

 stalk by extra hel}), wliich is paid at a fixed price per l^ushel. (See 

 fig. 7.) The most connnon j^ractice is lo pi'ovide each worlvman with 



Fig. 7. — Most of the corn grown in McClean County is huslced from the standini; stalk. 



a wagon and team. Each man husks two loads of varying size per 

 day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and hauls them to 

 the crib and unloads them. 



Table XYII. — Hvsking corn from stnndinfj stalks (1 man and team). 



Yield per acre. 



Number 

 of reports. 



A day's work. 



Group limits. 



Average. 



Average. 



Number bushels 

 most often reported. 



40 to 45 bushels, inclusive . . 



Bushels. 

 42.6 

 50.2 

 60.2 



121 

 370 

 38 



Btisheh. 

 78.2 

 81.8 

 87.1 



Acres. 

 1.84 

 1.63 

 1.45 



SO (47 reports). 





SO (l-'')0 reports). 



56 to 65 bushels, inclusive 



Scattering. 







A verage o f total , all reports 



49.2 



529 j 81. 3 



1.67 





