4 BULLETIN 961, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table II. — Summary of operations, implements, crews, and acreages reported most 

 frequently by hill far mzrs of Louisiana [677 rt;/3.3r(s)^Oontiiiued. 



Operation. 



Cultivating corn Cultivator 



Cultivating corn middles do 



Do do 



Tliinuing corn By hand 



Hoeing corn do 



Planting peas in corn do 



Do do 



Do Planter 



Pull and pile corn By hand 



Haul corn from pUe Wagon 



Pull and haul corn do 



Planting peanuts By hand 



Cover peanuts Turn plow^ 



Hoeing peanuts By hand 



Cultivating peanuts Cultivator 



PuUing peanuts By hand 



Shocking peanuts do 



Stacking peanuts do 



Drop sweet potatoes do 



Set sweet potatoes do 



Bar off sweet potatoes Turn plow 



Cultivating sweet potatoes Shovel cultivator. 



Hoeing sweet potatoes By hand 



Cutting sweet potato vmes do 



Drag sweet potatoes Turn plow 



Plow up sweet potatoes Middle buster 



Picking up sweet potatoes By hand 



Cultivate sugar cane Shovel cultivator. 



Hoeing sugar cane By hand 



Planting cow peas do 



Do Planter 



Mowing cow peas i Mower 



Raking cow peas i Rake 



Planting oats \ By hand 



Mowing oats Mower 



Cutting oats By hand 



■Binding oats do 



Shocking oats do 



Mowing hay Mower 



Raking hay i Rake 



Picking cotton By hand 



Making cane sirup I Crusher and vat. . 



Implement or 

 method. 



Size. 



4-foot row . 



do.... 



do.... 



do.... 



do.... 



do.... 



Broadcast. 

 1 row 



3-foot row . 



do.... 



do.... 



do.... 



2-foot row . 



3^foot row . 



do 



do 



do 



do 



3^-foot row. 

 3J-foot row . . 



5-foot row . 



do.... 



Broadcast. 



1 row 



4ifeet 



9feet 



Broadcast. 

 4iifeet 



4ifeet. 

 10 feet. 

 a636... 



Fur- 



Men. 



Mules. 



Acres 

 per day. 



3.82 

 7.56 

 3.81 

 2.39 

 2.08 

 7.18 



15.53 

 7.55 

 3.43 

 7.52 

 6.58 

 3.81 

 5.91 

 1.20 

 2.88 

 1.08 

 1.62 

 1.63 

 1.13 

 1.04 

 3.16 

 3.14 

 .74 

 .93 

 2.79 

 4.57 

 .42 

 4.75 

 .65 



13.50 

 5.69 

 6.23 



14.83 



14.11 

 7.60 

 3.24 

 3.33 

 7.06 

 5.83 



12.65 

 6130 



C73.2 



a Average pounds seed cotton per acre. 



b Pounds seed cotton per day. 



c Gallons per day. 



SIGNIFICANCE OF CREW DUTY AND LABOR REQUIREMENTS. 



The term ''crew" as used here, means the number of men, or men 

 and mules, recjuired to perform an operation. Crews vary in size 

 from one man, or one man and one horse, to several of each. The 

 word "duty" as used here means normal performance, that is, what 

 is actually done under normal conditions, rather than what should 

 or could be done. "Crew duty," then, means the usual amount of 

 work a crew can do in one day at a given operation. It is a normal 

 day's work. For example, if a man hoes on the average an acre 

 of cotton per day, his duty is here given as 1 acre. If a man and 

 team break 2 acres of land per day, then the crew duty for such a 

 crew is 2 acres. If a man uses a four-horse team and hauls 3 cords 

 of wood per day, then the duty for this crew is 3 cords. 



There are many factors affecting crew duty, such as stumps, size 

 of fields, topography, ditches, kind of soil, size of mules, character 

 of labor, and climatic conditions. Stumps are perhaps the greatest 



