COST AND UTILIZATION OF POWER ON FARMS. 
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cutting grain which was done with the 2-plow and 3-plow outfits 
on the farms where they were owned is shown in Table 25. 
Table 25. — Percentage of different operations done with 2-plow and with 3-plow tractors. 
Operation . 
Spring plowing 
Fall plowing 
Disking 
Harrowing, rolling, etc 
Cutting grain 
2-plow 
(174 
farms). 
Per cent. 
83.7 
88.5 
82.0 
49.1 
53.8 
3-plow 
(104 
farms). 
Per cent. 
80.6 
93.3 
63.3 
36.2 
25.9 
NUMBER OF WORKSTOCK USED ON DIFFERENT OPERATIONS. 
The number of workstock used for each operation as well as the 
number of workstock owned was obtained from the operators of the 
farms visited. Table 26 gives the number of workstock on the 
different farms and the number of operators who used all for culti- 
vating corn or some other one operation. 
Table 26. — Number of workstock owned on different farms and number of farms where 
all were used for some one operation. 
Number 
of work- 
stock 
owned. 
Number 
of farms. 
Number 
of farms 
where all 
workstock 
were used 
for cultiva- 
tion. 
Number 
of farms 
where 
workstock 
were not 
all used 
for cultiva- 
tion, but 
were all 
used for 
some other 
operation. 
Number 
of farms 
where all 
workstock 
were never 
used for 
any one 
operation. 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
16 
18 
20 
24 
Total.... 
11 
15 
43 
41 
57 
32 
39 
15 
12 
1 
4 
6 
5 
1 
1 
2 
1 
10 
9 
29 
18 
27 
4 
5 
1 
1 






1 

1 
6 
9 
5 
7 
3 
4 
1 
2 










5 
18 
23 
25 
30 
13 
9 
1 
4 
6 
5 
1 
1 
1 
1 
286 105 
38 
143 
Ninety-three per cent of the men with 4 or less head of workstock, 
57 per cent with 5 or 6, 23 per cent with 7 or 8, 19 per cent with 9 
or 10, and 5 per cent with over 10 used them all for some one opera- 
tion. One-half of the operators never used all of their workstock 
x>r any one operation. 
