UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 1000 
Contribution from the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics 
G. W. FORSTER, Acting Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
December 30, 1921 
LABOR AND MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS 
OF FIELD CROPS 
By 
L. A. MOORHOUSE, Associate Farm Economist 
O. A. JUVE, Junior Farm Economist 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Introduction 1 
Method of presentation 4 
Corn 5 
Corn silage .~ 8 
Cotton 11 
Potatoes 15 
Sugar beets 19 
Tobacco 22 
Beans 25 
Grain sorghums . . 28 
Wheat, spring and winter 29 
Oats 
Barley 36 
Rye 38 
Hay 40 
Grass seed crops 45 
Apples 46 
Miscellaneous crops 49 
Method of using foregoing data ... 51 
Value of plow lands 53 
Labor distribution among farm enter- 
prises . 54 
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WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1921 
