NORMAL DAYS WORK FOR VARIOUS FARM OPERATIONS. 
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Table XXXIX. — A normal day's work in hushing corn, by one man, giving the average 
daily work factors , in bushels of ears, according to the yield per acre. 
[Net hours at work, 9.58.] 
Operation. 
Yield per acre. 
Husked 
Number 
per day. 
averaged. 
Bushels. 
42.67 
222 
45.92 
336 
54.48 
220 
76.2 
224 
85.97 
318 
87.14 
147 
50.26 
388 
68.05 
450 
69.73 
131 
Adjusted 
factor 
per day. 
Husking from shock 
Husking from standing stalks continuously. 
Husking, hauling, and unloading, from standing 
stalks. 
1 to 40 bushels 
41 to 60 bushels 
61 bushels and over. 
1 to 40 bushels 
41 to 60 bushels 
61 bushels and over 
1 to 40 bushels 
41 to 60 bushels 
61 bushels and over 
Bushels. 
HARVESTING POTATOES. 
In Table XL harvesting potatoes with plows and diggers is grouped 
by the method employed and number of horses used. The reported 
acreages have been reduced 10 per cent in arriving at the adjusted 
acreage in the last column of the table. For plowing out Irish pota- 
toes with an ordinary plow, about equal numbers, out of the 108 
which Were averaged, reported 1, 2, 3, and 4 acres. Potato rows are 
often planted in every other furrow of the ordinary 12 or 14 inch plow, 
and the work of plowing them out is done more carefully than simple 
field plowing. Twice the daily duty of a 2-horse walking plow being 
about 3.70, the allowance for the care required in the plowing of pota- 
toes should reduce this acreage toward that given in the average, 
indicating that the factor 2.40 is substantially correct. In digging 
Irish potatoes with an elevator digger a 3-horse team is not often 
used, but the 4-horse team is almost as general as two horses. The 
acreage increases with increase of power, each additional horse adding 
about 20 per cent to the amount done daily. A digger drawn by two 
horses appears to be 40 per cent more efficient from the standpoint of 
acreage covered in a day than the ordinary 2-horse plow, but two 
horses are probably much overloaded by this implement. Meager data 
on digging sweet potatoes with a sweet-potato plow are also included 
in the table. Since sweet potatoes are planted in rows as much as 
twice the distance apart given to Irish potatoes, it is apparent from 
comparing these data with that for plowing out Irish potatoes that 
the deeper and wider furrow should result in an acreage for this 
operation about equal to the average of 3.60 reported in the table. 
