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Men Hours Horse ‘Hours 
Crowning. ....... 2.9 14.5 
Harrowing twice .... .- 1.0 3.0 
Floating once ...... 0.7 2.8 
MROGGM bs 6 eer we ae ee 4.6 20.3 
“One-fourth of this is, 1.2 men hours and 5.1 horse 
hours. This added to the regular work gives 49.5 men 
hours and 136.3 horse hours. 
“This means that on a 25-acre patch of beets you will 
have to spend 1207.5 hours of work, or 120.75 working 
days of 10 hours, during a growing season for this work, 
and your horses will have performed 3410 hours, or 341 
days of 10 hours each, or if you have 6 horses, each horse 
has averaged 57 days’ work during the growing season 
on 25 acres of beets.”’ ein 
L. A. Moorhouse ! found the following for man and horse 
labor in producing one acre of beets: 
Tasty XVIII. — InForMATION PERTAINING TO PRACTICE AND 
Cost or Propuction or Sucar-BesEts. (1914-1915) 
R Ipano Fauis 
Ire Bevo Dee (aang De | "Daron, 
No. of operators reporting | 58 79 36 
No. of acres grown . .| 833 1461 735 
Yield to the acre . . .| 14.9 tons 14.8tons| 18.6 tons 
Hours of man labor . .| 130.8 133.3 119.4 
Hours of horse labor . .| 117.1 98.5 79.3 
1 Correspondence with the author. 
