STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 



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and bimcliing are of course entirely done away witli when the loader 

 is used. 



Table XXVIII. — Loading hay loith cylinder and rake loaders {two men, besides 



driver of team). 





Loading from— 



Number 

 of men. 



Number 

 of reports. 



Minutes per load. 



Kind of loader. 



Average. 



Time mo.st often 

 reported. 



Cylinder 



Swath 



2 

 2 



2 



17 

 27 



80 



21.9 

 22.0 



23.2 



Scattering. 

 Do 



Do 





Rake... 



Swath 



/20 {27 reports). 

 \iQ {26 reports). 







Average, all reports 







22.8 















Fig. 11. — The hay loader reduces by about 25 per cent tht- time iLquin.d tu put on a 



load of hay. 



Most of the hay racks in use here are 7 feet wide and 14 feet long. 

 However, a considerable number 8 feet wide and 14 feet long, and 

 some 7 by 16 and 8 by 16 feet were reported. The variations in the 

 size of rack were evidently not great enough to affect the size of 

 load. 



UNLOADING HAY. 



The farmers were asked to give their experience in putting hay 

 into the mow both bv hand and with a hayfork. (See Tables XXIX 

 and XXX.) 



UNLOADING BY HAND. 



In unloading by hand the most common practice is to have one 

 man on the wagon and two in the mow, and on an average it takes 

 41 minutes for this crew to unload a load of 1.2 tons. The table 

 shows that it takes but very little longer for the 2-man crew, one 

 man on the wagon and one in the mow, to put away a load. How- 

 ever, a crew of this size is ordinarily used only in small barns, or 



