14 BULLETIISr 961, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table XVI. — Hauling cotton— one man and two mules. 



Hauling to gin 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



HauUng to gin and market 



Do 



Do 



Hauling to market 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Length of haul. 



Less than 1 mile 



1 to 2 miles 



2 to 3 miles 



3 to 4 miles 



4 to 5 miles 



5 to 10 miles 



1 to 2 miles 



2 to 3 miles 



4 to Smiles 



Less than 1 mile 

 1 to 2 miles 



3 to 4 miles 



5 to 6 miles 



7 to Smiles 



9 to 10 miles 



Bales 



Number 



per 



of 



day. 



reports. 



2.24 



33 



1.94 



35 



1.77 



31 



1.68 



22 



1.00 



8 



1.45 



11 



2.00 



10 



1.66 



10 



1.08 



12 



2.50 



8 



2.74 



12 



2.37 



8 



2.72 



18 



2.70 



10 



2.37 



9 



Number of bales 

 per day most f re- 

 quently reported. 



2 (17 reports). 

 2 (26 reports). 

 2 (24 reports), 

 fl (8 reports). 

 \.2 (13 reports). 



1 (8 reports). 



Do. 



2 (10 reports). 

 2 (6 reports). 

 1(11 reports). 

 2 (5 reports). 

 2 (6 reports). 



Do. 

 2 (12 reports). 

 2 (6 reports). 

 2 (5 reports). 





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Much time is lost in 



LABOR REQUIREMENTS OF COTTON. 



The man and mule labor requirements of cotton by operations — 

 that is, the amount of man and mule labor required when all of the 

 operations are performed, are shown in Table XVII. 



To determine by this table the amount of labor per acre required 

 on cotton for a given farm, simply foot the figures for the operations 

 performed on that farm. 



It will be noticed that the greater part of the man labor is required 

 for picking, the next largest for hoe work, and the next for culti- 



