HAYMAKING CREWS AND LABOR COSTS. 
Method 6. 
This crew consists of 5 men and 6 horses. It puts up 10 acres of 
hay a day, and hence could care for 100 acres in ten working days, the 
usual length of the haying season (one cutting). All of the men work 
all day at haying except the man raking, who works only in the after- 
noon. On most farms producing 100 acres of hay, there is always 
other work to be done besides haying, and this method allows one 
man to do other farm work in the morning. 
A weakness of this method is that when there is a heavy dew the 
crew may be idle an hour or two in the morning. In order to obviate 
this and get in a full day's work, enough hay should be bunched late 
in the afternoon to keep the crew busy in the morning until the dew 
is gone and the hay is in proper condition to be taken up from the 
windrow. 
The labor cost for this crew is $0.93 per ton, which is very low for 
this system. 
If another similar crew is used one rake will rake for both crews and 
will be kept busy all day. 
Work Chart 6. — Timothy and clover loaded by hand, unloaded vrith horses (New York). 
[This method is adapted to 100 acres of hay.] 
Men 
Teams 
Time required 
Operation 
6 7 .8 9 10 11 12 l 2 3 k 5 6 
Mowing. . . .• 
A 
B 
C 
D 
E 
(CDE) 
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b 
c 
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Pitohing 
Unloading 
Five men and 6 horses put up 15 tons (10 acres) per day. Yield per acre, 1.50 tons. Man-hours 3.0, 
team-hours 1.66 per ton. Labor cost, per ton, $0,932. 
Method 7. 
This is a rather expensive method, considerable time being lost 
while waiting for the dew to go off in the morning. Hay is cut in 
the morning and tedded in the afternoon, and raked the following 
morning. The hauling crew is one man short in the forenoon, and 
there is a loss of 2 hours by man and team after the tedding is finished. 
Two loads are hauled in by noon, and in the afternoon the remainder 
of the 6 tons are hauled in. This is not a speedy crew, but is fairly 
representative of crews on some farms having 40 to 50 acres of timothy 
and clover hay. In the afternoon, B pitches and team b is used at 
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