STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 



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for 2-man crews in oats yielding 45 bushels per acre or less gave 17.4 

 acres per clay ; 281 estimates of the same sized crew with a yield rang- 

 ing from 46 to 55 bushels gave the same area, and 60 estimates with 

 a yield over 55 bushels gave 17.2 acres per day. 



UNLOADING GRAIN. 



Portable elevators are in general use in this locality for unloading 

 corn and oats into the crib and bin, and in order to make possible a 

 comparison of the efficiency of this practice with that of unloading 

 with a scoop shovel the farmers were asked to estimate the time 

 required to unload ear corn and oats by the two methods. (See fig. 

 9.) No attempt was made to differentiate between the elevators op- 

 erated by gasoline engines and those where horses furnished the 

 power. 



Table XXIII. — Unloading grain by Jumd and tvith portable elevator. 



Kind of grain. 



Number 



of 

 reports. 



Average 

 per load. 



Time required to 

 unload. 



hand. 



With 

 elevator. 



Kar corn 



4S4 

 482 



Bushels. 

 42.5 

 85.3 



Minutes. 

 2S.1 

 25.6 



• Minutes. 

 7.S 



Oats 



7.9 







Table XXIII shows that on the average the elevator saves about 

 20 minutes in unloading a load of corn and 18 minutes in unload- 

 ing a load of oats. This saving in time, and the release from 

 the hard labor of scooping grain is worth considerable, especially 

 to men who are husking corn by the bushel. The most frequent 

 size of load of ear corn reported was 40 bushels. The most frequent 

 size of load of oats was 100 bushels, but no load greater than 100 

 bushels was reported. Ten minutes was given most often as the 

 time necessary for unloading these loads with an elevator, while 

 30 minutes was given most often as the time for unloading them 

 with a scoop shovel. 



HAYING OPERATIONS. 



Hay is not as important on these farms as corn or oats, most of 

 the farms having under 20 acres in this crop. This is reflected in 

 the . machinery used for harvesting hay, most of the mowers and 

 rakes being of the smaller sizes, and a comparatively small number 

 of hay loaders being reported. Nearly all of the hay is either 

 clover, timothy, or clover and timothy, very few men reporting 

 alfalfa. A study of the reports showed that the kind of hay and 

 variations in yield apparently have little effect on the efficiency of 

 the machines and crews, and no attempt has been made to take 



