HAYMAKING CREWS AND LABOR COSTS. 5 
The three-man crew is most commonly used for acreages up to 30 
acres. For a larger acreage up to 60, the five-man or six-man crew 
is generally used. 
Method 1. 
Method 1 can be recommended only for cases in which a small 
acreage of legume hay is grown. The man who used this method 
grew sugar beets as the principal crop, and the haying interfered 
little with the necessary work required in the beet field. In this 
system, one man works nearly all the first day in the hay field, and 
the next day two men work in the morning only. If this system is 
used, the hay should all be made in a week or ten days, in order to 
Fig. 3.— Pitching hay on to the stack by hand. This is a slow and costly method of unloading hay and 
should be used only when the acreage is small. 
get the hay all made before it becomes too mature. The method is 
not to be recommended in sections subject to frequent rainfall. 
(See fig. 3.) 
To facilitate interpretation of the work charts, the first one will be 
described here in detail. A here represents the man and a his team, 
which draws the mower in the forenoon and the sulky rake in the 
afternoon of the first day. The chart shows that the mower runs 
from 8 o'clock in the morning until noon. In the afternoon A, with 
his team a, rakes from 3.30 until 6 p. m. B does no work at haying 
the first day, and he and his team b are available for other work, 
such, for instance, as cultivating corn. The second day B pitches 
hay onto the wagon to A, who builds the load and hauls to the barn 
with team a. A and B unload. One works in the mow and the 
