ITORMAL DAY S WORK IIST WESTERN NEW YORK. 



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In Table XXIX is shown the number of bushels of peaches that 

 one man can pick daily where the yield per tree varies. The better 

 the crop per tree the more it is possible to pick daily. In making 

 these reports farmers reported those yields per tree regarding which 

 they had the best record as to the efficiency of the picking. The 

 larger yields are most readily reported because the most unusual. 

 The yields per tree, therefore, should not be taken as representing 

 the average yield of peaches. Two or 3 bushels per tree is the most 

 common yield. 



Table XXIX. — A fair day's work for one inan in picking peaches from trees of average 

 size, according to yield per tree. 



Yield 



Bushels 



Number 



per tree 



picked 



aver- 



(bushels). 



per day. 



aged. 



1 



22.2 



17 



2 



33.6 



101 



3 



34.7 



99 



4 



38.3 



50 



5 



39.8 



50 



8 



45.9 



13 



10 



54.3 



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From Table XXX it appears that about the same number of peaches 

 can be handled daily by one man packing into baskets as can be 

 picked from the tree. In general, the smaller the basket, the less 

 the quantity that can be packed in a day. The J-bushel basket is 

 most commonly used. Mechanical graders for sorting peaches were 

 almost unknown in this area at the time these data were collected. 

 The work covered by the tables, therefore, refers to methods which 

 are entirely manual. 



Table XXX. — A fair day's work for one man in packing peaches in baskets. 



Size of 



basket 



(bushels). 



Number of 

 baskets 

 daily. 



Average 

 bushels 

 daily. 



Number 

 averaged. 



3 

 1* 



88.2 

 97.7 

 79.5 

 57.6 



22.1 

 32.6 

 39.7 

 57.6 



17 



266 



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Table XXXI gives tlie daily duty of one man in picking apples. 

 Tlie larger the yield, the greater the quantity that can bo picked in 

 a day. Apples can be picked somewhat more rapidly than poaches. 

 In good years pickers prefer to ))0 paid by the bushel or barrel and 

 work more rapidly tlian when paid by the day. Under average con- 

 ditions in this territory the yield of apples is from 4 to 6 bushels per 

 tree, and the average picker gathers from 20 to 25 barrels daily. 



