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BULLETIN" 678, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
oped a cropping system which is characteristic of the cornmunity. 
Figures 4 and 5 show the seasonal distribution of labor on the prin- 
cipal crops in this locality. Truck crops, of course, have an im- 
portant relation to the cropping system here, but they are so numer- 
ous and the practice related to them so complicated that it was 
thought best not to give in this bulletin the seasonal distribution of 
labor on any of them except Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, and 
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season; dotted lines extreme range. 
onions, which have on farms a place more nearly equivalent to that 
of general field crops. 
The heavy lines show the limits of the average season for the 
operations required. The dotted lines show the variation in the 
practice of different farms or the variations on the same farm from 
year to year due to weather conditions. Charts of this kind have 
been used by individual farmers and found to be of considerable 
practical value, in that they help to form a mental picture of the sea- 
sonal labor requirement for the year. 
