26' BULLETIN 578, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Work Chart 24. — Alfalfa stacked with push rakes and stacker (Kansas). 
[This method is adapted to about 100 acres.] 
Operation 
Men 
Teams 
Time required 
6 7 « 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 U- 5 6 
First day: 
Mowing 
Mowing 
Mowing 
Raking 
Raking. ....... 
Second day: 
Raking. ...;... 
Raking 
Push raking. . . 
Push raking, . . 
Stacking 
Stacking 
Third day: 
Push raking. . . 
Push raking. . . 
"Stacking 
Stacking. 
A 
B 
C 
A 
B. 
A 
B 
A 
B 
C 
D 
A 
B 
C 
D 
a 
b 
c 
a 
b 
a 
a 
a 
b 
c 
a 
b 
c 
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
mmmmmmmmmm in m m m m m 
mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm 
mmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm 
r r r x 
r r r r 
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S3838S8S38 
8833 888638 
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3888688883 
8888888 BBS 
1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 f 1 1 1 
Four men and 6 horses put up 26 tons (26 acres) in 2.50 days. Yield, 1 ton per acre. Man-hours 3, team- 
hours 2.61 per ton. Labor cost, $1.12 yer ton. 
Method 25. 
This method is used extensively in the prairie hay section of 
Oklahoma. It is not a very good one for the reason that only one 
sweep rake being used; the stacker is not kept very busy. Also, 
the rake is idle half of the day, and the stacker team and man driving 
it are idle over half of the time. If two mowers and two sweep 
rakes were used, the rake would be kept busy all day, and twice as 
much could be put into the stack without increasing the crew at the 
stack. Thus, the cost per ton would be lessened materially. (See 
method 31.) 
