AGRICULTURE FOR SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. 37 
Lesson 37. — Management of Farm Labor. 
1. A day's work for one man. 
2. Efficiency-in management. 
3. Seasonal distribution. 
Special references.— The following department bulletins: 3, Normal Day's Work 
for Various Farm Operations; 412, The Normal Day's Work of Farm Implements, 
Workmen, and Crews in Western New York. Articles in the following Yearbooks: 
1910, Supply and Wages of Farm Labor; 1911, Seasonal Distribution of Labor on 
the Farm. 
Exercises 15 and 16. — Planning Work Schedules. 
After the work with farm plans two double periods should be taken 
in planning work schedules for the home farms of the students and 
other farms which they have planned and in which they have an 
interest. 
Lesson 38. — Factors of Agricultural Production, 
1. Land. 
2. Capital goods. 
3. Population. 
Lesson 39. — Cost of Production. 
1. Necessity of knowing costs. 
2. Factors which determine cost. 
3. Interest on permanent investment and depreciation. 
Exercises 17-20. — Cost of Production. 
Time equal to four double periods should be spent in working out 
costs of production on local farms. Records kept in connection 
with home projects and club work may form the basis of this work. 
Special reference. — Farm Records and Accounts — Suggestions for Teaching the 
Subject in Secondary Schools, States Relations Service Document 38. 
Lesson 40. — Cost of Production — Continued. 
1. Cost of man labor and horse labor. 
2. Cost of live-stock production. 
3. Contribution of farm to farmer's living. 
4. Wastes of the farm. 
Special references. — The following Farmers' Bulletins: 635, What the Farm Con- 
tributes Directly to the Farmer's Living; 746, The Farmer's Income. The following 
bulletins of the Bureau of Statistics, United States Department of Agriculture: 16, 
Cost of Cotton Production; 48, Cost of Producing Minnesota Farm Products; 73, Cost 
of Producing Farm Products; 88, Cost of Producing Minnesota Dairy Products. The 
following Department Bulletins: 29, Crew Work Costs and Returns in Commercial 
Orcharding in West Virginia; 49, The Cost of Raising a Dairy Cow; 130, Operating 
Cost of a Well-established New York Apple Orchard; 321, Cost of Fencing Farms 
in North Central States; 338, Machinery Cost of Farm Operations in Western New 
York; 410, Value to Farm Families of Food, Fuel, and Use of Home; 446, Cost of 
Producing Apples in Wenatchee Valley, Wash. 
Exercises 21-26. — Farm Bookkeeping. 
In connection with the general lessons in farm accounts time equal 
to six double periods should be given to practice in the application 
