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BULLETIlSr 678, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



oped a cropping system whicti is characteristic of the community. 

 Figures 4 and 5 show the seasonal distribution of labor on the prin- 

 cipal crops in this locality. Truck crops, of course, have an im- 

 portant relation to the cropping system here, but they are so numer- 

 ous and the practice related to them so comphcated that it was 

 thought best not to give in this bulletin the seasonal distribution of 

 labor on any of them except Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, and 



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Fig. 4.— Diagram showing the seasonal work on general field crops. (Solid lines indicate average 

 season; dotted lines e.xtreme range. 



onions, which have on farms a place more nearly equivalent to that 

 of general field crops. 



The heavy lines show the limits of the average season for the 

 operations required. The dotted lines show the variation in the 

 practice of different farms or the variations on the same farm from 

 year to year due to weather conditions. Charts of this kind have 

 been used by individual farmers and found to be of considerable 

 practical value, in that they help to form a mental picture of the sea^ 

 sonal labor requirement for the year. 



