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acres, requiring 442 % days of labor and 375)4 days of 

 team service, an average accomplishment of 7.89 acres 

 per day's labor. 



Cultivation — Cost of cultivation differs more than 

 any other operation, owing to differences in imple- 

 ments used, and to differing degrees of care and labor 

 given the crop. The whole area, 4051 acres, was cul- 

 tivated twice; 3991 acres were cultivated three times; 

 2515 acres received a fourth cultivation, while 442 

 acres were given additional cultivation. To perform 

 the total amount of cultivation given to the crop of the 

 record required 2296^ days of labor and 229714 days 

 of team service. The average performance per day's 

 labor was 1.76 acres, this of course representing the 

 total cultivation given to this breadth during the whole 

 season. A day's labor sufficed to cultivate about 6.6 

 acres a single time. 



Gathering and Cribbing — Two methods are fol- 

 lowed, first, cutting up and shocking and husking from 

 the shock; second, husking from the standing stalk, 

 the stalks remaining in the field to be pastured down. 

 In this investigation 2976 acres were husked standing, 

 requiring 2438% days of labor and 2264 days of team 

 service, the accomplishment being 1.22 acres per day's 

 labor, this including cribbing as well as husking. Of 

 the crop cut up, 659 acres was done by hand, requiring 

 595)4 days of labor, or 1.11 acres per day. Machines 

 were used in cutting 215 acres, requiring 74 days of 

 labor and 48)^ days of team service, the accomplish- 

 ment being 2.91 acres per day's labor. The balance of 

 the acres of record was harvested by contract and is 

 therefore not included in the calculation of the effi- 

 ciency of labor per day. 



Husking from the shock was practiced on 651 

 acres, excluding 212 acres by contract, requiring 

 1223)4 days of labor and 382J/2 days of team service, 



