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when very little moving of the hay in the mow is to be done. Under 

 such conditions one man in the mow can take care of the hay as 

 fast as the man on the wagon can pitch it off, and a second man in 

 the mow can not lessen materially the time required for the work. 

 The 4-man crew, two men on the wagon and two in the mow, seems 

 to be less efficient than either the 2 or the 3 man crew. With this 

 crew it requires a total of about two and one-quarter hours of man 

 labor to unload a load as compared with two hours with the 3-man 

 crew and less than one and one-half hours with the 2-man crew. 



Tarle XXIX. — Unloading hay into mojo by hand. 



Number of 

 men on 

 wagon. 



Number of 

 men in 



mow. 



Number of 

 reports. 



Minutes per load. 



Average. 



Time most often 

 reported. 



1 



1 

 2 



1 



2 

 2 



67 



216- 

 92 



43.4 



41.0 

 33.2 



mUe reports). 

 \60 (18 reports), 

 ho (68 reports). 

 Uo (46 reports). 

 [60 (35 reports). 

 SO (33 reports). 



UNLOADING WITH HAYFOKK. 



The crew for unloading with a hayfork always consists of one 

 man on the load,, a man or boy to drive the horse or team on the 

 hayfork rope, and enough men in the mow to take care of the 

 hay as fast as it can be gotten to them. As was the case in unloading 

 by hand, the smallest crew seems to be the most efficient. The 3-man 

 crew, one man in the mow, one on the load, and one to drive the 

 hayfork team, uses 20 per cent less man labor per load than does the 

 4-man crew, and 35 per cent less than the 5-man crew. However, 

 the fact that such a large majority report the use of two men in the 

 mow indicates that unless there is but little work to be done in 

 the mow two men are necessary to keep up with the hayfork. 



Table XXX. — Unloadinff hay into moic untTi hayfork (one man on load and 

 one driving hayfork team). 



Number of 

 men in 

 mow. 



Minutes per load. 



reports. 



Average. 



1 



Time most often re- 

 ported. 



1 

 2 

 3 



64 20. 2 

 364 1 18.2 

 23 16.4 



Scattering. 

 (15 (112 reports). 

 \20 (105 reports). 



15 (9 reports). 



The total hours of man labor required for unloading with 3 and 

 4 man crews is only a little more than half as great when a hayfork 

 is used as when the work is done by hand. Besides the direct saving 

 of time a boy can drive the horses attached to the hayfork rope, and 



