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BULLETIN 943, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XIV. — Variation in labor requirements per acre, spring luheat , 1919 {201 farms)- 
Continued. 
Range of man-hours 
Nebraska. 
Total. 
Average hours 
per acre. 
Phelps County. 
Saline County. 
Keith County. 
Man. 
Horse. 
Under 4 
Farms. 
Acre- 
age. 
Farms. 
Acre- 
age. 
Farms. 
Acre- 
age. 
Farms. 
Acre- 
age. 
4 to 6 . 
1 
4 
16 
5 
2 
120 
523 
2,361 
495 
245 
41 
41 
22 
17 
24 
6 
1 
4 
2 
1,605 
9,402 
7,503 
2,867 
1,280 
2,007 
1,360 
976 
402 
55 
229 
56 
5.4 
6.9 
9.0 
10.8 
12.8 
15.2 
16.7 
18.7 
20.5 
23.8 
24.6 
27.4 
15 9 
6 to 8 
4 
505 
19 1 
8 to 10 
22.9 
10 to 12 
3 
8 
8 
6 
2 
1 
171 
403 
447 
193 
120 
74 
2 
1 
1 
355 
60 
40 
26 2 
12 to 14 
30.7 
14 tol6 
36.1 
16t0l8 
37 
18 to 20 
41 5 
20 to 22 
44.9 
22 to 24 
47 
24 to 26 
44.2 
26 to 28 
61.6 
Total 
28 
3,744 
28 
1,408 1 8 
960 
201 
27,742 
10.0 
24.8 
In the winter-wheat areas each labor group from 6 to 20 hours per 
acre was well represented by farms in one or more of the counties 
visited. None of these farms reported less than 4 man-hours per 
acre, and the average for the 4 to 6 hour group was 5.4 hours. Like- 
wise, few of the farms reported more than 20 hours per acre, although 
two farms with small acreages were in the 26 to 28 hour class. In 
the winter- wheat area the majority of farmers in the three Kansas 
counties and Phelps County, Nebr., reported comparatively low 
hours of labor per acre. The farmers in Saline County, Nebr., and 
Jasper and St. Charles Counties, Mo., reported comparatively high 
hours of labor, while those in Saline County, Mo., were fairly well 
distributed in all groups from 8 to 20 hours per acre. In Keith 
County, Nebr., but eight of the total farms were included in this tab- 
ulation because of the extensive use of tractors and employment of 
contract labor, 
SUMMARY OF LABOR PRACTICES. 
As an indication of variations in amount of labor expended per 
acre, a summary of labor practices is given in Tables XV to XIX 
inclusive. 
