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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 
In Table XLIV the^average data for picking apples and strawber- 
ries, for scooping grain, and for milking cows are tabulated. The 
duty of one man in picking apples ranges from 34 bushels where the 
trees yield less than 10 bushels each to 45 bushels where the yield 
per tree is over 10 bushels. The reports for picking strawberries 
ranged from 50 to 200 quarts, a wide variation explained by the 
equally wide variation in yields at different seasons and at different 
pickings in the same season, also by the practice of paying by the 
quart, so that growers are not put to the necessity of knowing how 
much the laborer earns at such work. At the average rate reported 
for scooping grain it would be necessary to handle 1| bushels or 
about 6 to 8 scoopfuls each minute, a rate that can be greatly 
exceeded, if necessary, in intermittent work of this character. While 
the average for 1,014 reports on milking cows can doubtless be taken 
as reasonably conclusive, for practical purposes a reduction of 10 per 
cent, placing the hourly duty for this operation at 7 cows per hour, 
should be found more acceptable. 
Table XLIV. — A normal day's work in miscellaneous operations, giving the average 
work factors in terms of designated units per man per day or hour. 
Operation. 
Picking apples 
Picking strawberries. 
Scooping grain 
Milking cows 
Net hours 
at work. 
Conditions. 
.58 
(1 to 10 bushels per tree . . 
\Over 10 bushels per tree 
At average yields 
From bin of box 
Cows per hour 
"Work factors. 
Daily. 
33. 96 bushels 
44. 84 bushels 
99. 71 quarts 
Hourly 
Number 
averaged. 
2. 47 tons 
7.94 
221 
161 
105 
480 
1,014 
HAULING FARM PRODUCE TO MARKET. 
In Table XLV data on the operation of loading, hauling to market, 
and unloading certain farm commodities have been assembled by 
distance to market and expressed in loads per day for each distance. 
Inspection of the averages for each product shows a fairly uniform 
decrease with increasing distance, with the exception of 8 instances 
out of 100, these exceptions being in cases where very few reports 
were made. The average for all commodities shows no irregularities. 
The number of loads hauled daily is seen to vary with the time taken 
to load and unload or with the nature of the product or manner of 
handling it. From the limited number who reported for distances 
greater than 10 miles it appears that smaller loads are hauled for this 
than for the shorter distances, doubtless on account of poorer roads 
and greater grades in the more remote localities. The average 
