32 BULLETIN 9iSj U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XIX. — Summary of labor practices in Nebraska, lointer wheat, 1919. 
Phelps County. 
Saline County. 
Keith Coimtj 
Practice. 
Rec- 
ords. 
Acre- 
age. 1 
Average 
hours per 
acre. 
Rec- 
ords. 
Acre- 
age.! 
Average 
hours per 
acre. 
Rec- 
ords. 
Acre- 
age. 1 
Average 
hours per 
acre. 
Harrow stalks 
Per 
cent. 
53 
20 
70 
100 
7 
3 
Per 
cent. 
18 
5 
7 
61 
7 
1 
Man. 
0.4 
.6 
9.1 
2.3 
.9 
1.9 
Horse 
1.8 
1.7 
21.3 
9.5 
7.6 
Per 
cent. 
Per 
cent. 
Man. 
Horse 
Per 
cent. 
Per 
cent. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Cut stalks 
Manure . . . 
80 
89 
17 
17 
74 
24 
8.5 
2.9 
1.3 
23.8 
11.2 
22 
26 
48 
4 
39 
4 
48 
30 
26 
4 
1 
6 
57 
1 
12 
1 
23 
40 
14 
1 
12.7 
3.6 
.9 
1.4 
.4 
.4 
2.3 
.8 
.5 
.4 
25.4 
13 7 
Plow 
Plow (tractor) 
Plow land with culti- 
vator 
1 4 
Break corn stalKs 
1 6 
Break corn stalks (trac- 
tor) 
Disks 
33 
16 
.8 
3.6 
69 
56 
1.4 
5.8 
9 7 
Disk (tractor) 
Harrow (spike) 3 
Harrow (spike) (tractor). 
100 
65 
.6 
2.5 
100 
99 
.7 
2.8 
1.9 
Harrow after arill 
3 
6 
1 
3 
.4 
.8 
1.6 
3.4 
Roll 
3 
30 
17 
30 
10 
97 
3 
93 
7 
3 
.2 
24 
21 
23 
8 
97 
3 
90 
9 
1 
.4 
.1 
.1 
.1 
.1 
1.1 
.6 
.7 
1.2 
3.5 
1.6 
.1 
.2 
""3." 6' 
Apply grass-hopper poi- 
son 
Haul seed 
9 
54 
3 
100 
6 
54 
3 
100 
.2 
.2 
. 1 
.9 
.4 
"3.' 6" 
13 
52 
35 
70 
30 
39 
30 
35 
4 
65 
26 
22 
52 
52 
78 
78 
35 
22 
60 
31 
46 
54 
32 
45 
15 
r? 
36 
9 
70 
30 
69 
69 
31 
' .1 
.1 
.1 
1.2 
.7 
.8 
.9 
2.3 
2.2 
1.3 
.3 
2.8 
2.6 
1.3 
.8 
2.2 
.6 
.2 
Treat seed 
Drill seed 
3 3 
Drill seed (tractor) 
Cut 
3.5 
"""5.' 6' 
100 
3 
93 
7 
.9 
1.2 
3.9 
3 3 
Cut (tractor) 
Head and stack 
3.9 
Head and stack (tractor) 
1.6 
Shock 
99 
37 
37 
63 
40 
83 
83 
60 
99 
38 
28 
73 
27 
59 
59 
41 
1.0 
.2 
2.6 
1.9 
.9 
.3 
1.0 
.8 
■"2.' 9' 
2.5 
2.0 
1.6 
100 
46 
6 
94 
6 
89 
89 
46 
96 
42 
2 
98 
2 
66 
66 
34 
1.6 
.2 
4.2 
3.5 
1.4 
.8 
1.5 
1.4 
"i:k' 
5.0 
"i.'2" 
3.0 
2.5 
Re-shock 

Stack 
2.7 
Shock thrash 
3.3 
Stack thrash 
Haul to granary... . 
1.3 
Haul to market (from 
4.6 
Haul to market (from 
machine) 
.8 
1 Thrashing and hauling percentage are based upon bushels. 
2 Disking was done 1.0 time in Phelps County, 1.4 times in Saline Coimty, and 2.1 times in Keith Coimty. 
3 Harrowing was done 1.9 times in Phelps County, 1.9 times in SaUne Coimty, and 1.3 times in Keith 
County. 
Plowing is an operation that requires a large amount of power 
and labor as compared with other farm operations. In the spring- 
wheat area 86 per cent of the total wheat acreage was plowed, and 
of this 20 per cent was plowed with tractor power. The remaining 
14 per cent of the wheat acreage was corn stubble and potato land 
which was not plowed but usually disk-harrowed instead. Clay 
County, Minn., was foremost in the use of the tractor for plowing, 
41 per cent of the acreage being tractor-plowed in this area. In the 
various winter-wheat areas visited a wide variation existed in the 
percentage of total wheat acreage plowed. In Pawnee and Ford 
Counties, Kans., but 21 and 23 per cent, respectively, of the wheat 
land was plowed, while in the other districts from 60 to 98 per cent 
was plowed. The tractor was extensively used in St. Charles County, 
Mo., where 24 per cent of the land was plowed by tractor power. 
In Ford, Pawnee, and McPherson Counties the lister was substituted 
