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The relation of the size of the farm to man labor: 



Size of farm. 



Acres 



per 



man. 



Crop acres 



17 





13 





9 



43 





25 





16 



83 





47 





31 



136 





53 





35 



230 





64 





42 



229 





76 





48 



315 





60 





49 



As we go up in the size of the farm, we increase the acres 

 worked per man. The larger the farm the more acres worked 

 by each man. The crop acres increased from 9 to 50 acres per 

 man. The man tills more than five times as many acres on the 

 315 acre farm than on the 17 acre farm. It might be interest- 

 ing to notice how this labor is divided. 



Size of farm. 



Av. number of 



men. 



Men by year. 



Unpaid labor 



17 



1.3 





.0 





2 



43 



1.7 





.2 





3 



83 



i.8 





•3 





4 



136 



2.4 





.6 





6 



230 



2.7 





•9 





6 



229 



3-0 





I.I 





7 



315 



3-4 





1.5 





7 



This shows that the acres tilled by each man increase very 

 rapidly as the size of the farm is increased, and so do the tilled 

 acres. 



The relation of size of farm to horse labor 



