20 BULLETIN 528. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Field operations and labor requirements (165 farms) — Continued. 



Hours of labor per acre. 



First cutting— Man labor. Horse labor. 



Mowing, 5-foot cut machine 1.0 2. 



Tedding 7 1.4 



Raking, 2 times , 1. 2 2. 4 



Cocking and capping ... 2.2 .5 



Making over cocks and collecting caps 1. 6 .5 



Loading, hauling, and storing 5. 4 5. 4 



12. 1 12. 2 



Second or third cuttings — 



Mowing 1.0 2.0 



Raking, 2 times : 1. 2 2. 4 



Cocking and capping 1. 7 .4 



Repiling and collecting caps 1. 3 .4 



Loading, hauling, and storing 3. 3. 



8. 2 8. 2 



Harvesting (without using hay caps) — 

 First cutting — 



Mowing, tedding, raking, and piling 5.7' 8.4 



Loading, hauling, and storing 5. 4 5. 4 



11. 1 13. 8 



PART H. HOW TO USE THE FOREGOING DATA. 



In order to show the use of the data given in the preceding tables, 

 they are applied in the following pages to a particular farm located 

 in the area of the survey. 



DESCRIPTION OF FARM SELECTED. 



Map A (fig. 2) shows the field divisions, the acreage of each, the 

 location of farm roads and buildings, and the crops grown on the farm 

 selected. The farm contains about 155 acres, of which 63 acres, or 

 about 40 per cent, are in permanent bluegrass pasture. This is badly 

 cut by a stream, and therefore is not strictly tillable. 



This farm in general is typical of the region, a large part of the 

 income being derived from stock and stock products, mostly milk. 

 The fact that alfalfa has been successfully grown was considered in 

 the selection of this farm, as the growing of this crop is rapidly increas- 

 ing in this county. 



Though the fields are unequally divided, rougly speaking, the fol- 

 lowing rotation has been practiced: (1) Corn for grain; (2) corn for 

 silage; (3) wheat; (4) clover and timothy; (5) timothy, one and some- 

 times two years. Reoently alfalfa, 5 to 6 quarts per acre, has been 

 added to the grass mixture. This requires that the grass be cut 



