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BULLETIN 814^ U. S. DEPAETMEN"T OF AGRICULTUEE, 

 Table XXVII. — Loading hay hy hand {one man on load). 



Number of 

 men to 

 pitch. 



Number of 

 reports. 



Minutes per load. 



Average. 



Time most often 

 reported. 



1 

 2 



48 

 348 



42.2 

 31.4 



Scattering. 



30 (i^O reports). 



HAY LOADER. 



Table XXVIII gives the time required for two men besides the 

 driver of the team to put on a load with the cylinder hay loader 



Fig. 10. — In loading hay by hand the 3-man crew is most often used. 



from the swath and from the windrow, and with the rake loader 

 ifrom the swath. More than twice as many men reported using rake 

 loaders than those using cylinder loaders. Some reported the use of 

 only one man on the load, but there were not enough of these to 

 justify comparison between this practice and the using of two men. 

 The table shows that, as far as time is concerned, there is very little 

 difference between the efficiency of these two loaders. The average 

 size of load put on with the loaders is 1.3 tons, nearly the same as 

 that put on when the work is done by hand. 



As compared with loading by hand, three men with a loader — 

 two besides the driver of the team — put on a load in about 25 per 

 cent less time than do three men by hand. There is the added ad- 

 vantage that the services of some one who can not do a full man's 

 work with the pitchfork can be utilized for driving the team. If 

 the hay is loaded directly from the swath the operations of raking 



