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BULLETIN 582, V. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGKICULTUBE. 
the small orchardist barely fills the family flour barrel and the feed 
bin for the few head of live stock kept. 
Table 14. — Labor requirement of crops. 
[Days per acre.] 
MAN LABOR. 
Crop. 
Strawberries.. 
Raspberries.. 
Peaches 
Prunes 
Pears 
Apples 
Alfalfa 
Canning peas. 
Small grain. . . 
Snap beans. . . 
Tomatoes 
Potatoes 
Onions 
Sugar beets. . . 
Winter, 
96 days, 46 
availaole. 
1.50 
1.50 
2.00 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
2.00 
Mar: 1 to 
May 1, 60 
days, 35 
available. 
0.17 
8.17 
6.24 
5.88 
5.67 
4.92 
.17 
1.54 
.82 
1.00 
2.10 
2.90 
3.17 
.97 
May 1 to 
Ju,y 1, 61 
days, 42 
avanable. 
136.04 
7.33 
1.75 
3.20 
2.25 
1.75 
.83 
4.50 
.35 
1.94 
5.07 
2.09 
5.84 
3.97 
July 1 to 
Sept. 1, 62 
days, 50 
available. 
2.67 
2 44.00 
3.13 
.88 
6 4.38 
3.28 
1.03 
3.50 
1.38 
12 26.25 
13 15. 67 
1.15 
2.67 
1.75 
Sept. 1 to 
Nov. 1, 61 
days, 42 
available. 
3 22. 00 
6 22. 00 
6 9.50 
U4.00 
.83 
13 12.00 
"4.00 
is 21. 20 
"ft. 25 
Nov. 1 to 
Dec. 1, 30 
days, 20 
available. 
0.50 
.50 
.67 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
Total. 
M0.38 
2 61.00 
3 33. 62 
5 32. 46 
6 21.80 
7 23. 95 
8 2.86 
9 9.54 
ii 3. 22 
12 31. 19 
is 37. 34 
14 12. 64 
15 38. 04 
17 15. 94 
HORSE LABOR. 
Crop. 
Winter. 
Mar. 1 to 
May 1. 
May 1 to 
July 1. 
July 1 to 
Sept. 1. 
Sept. 1 to 
Nov. 1. 
Nov. 1 to 
Dec. 1. 
Total. 
3.00 
3.00 
5.67 
1.67 
1.67 
3.28 
1.33 
1.00 
.95 
4.00 
0.50 
6.00 
1.50 
9.17 
Raspberries 
10.67 
2.81 
3.14 
1.67 
2.50 
«5.00 
6.00 
3.00 
8.00 
.95 
1.00 
1.00 
* 11.98 
13.42 
1.00 
.80 
.95 
4.00 
.73 
3.00 
4.75 
.25 
7.00 
12.30 
Alfalfa 
2.85 
2.63 
1.30 
1.67 
1.27 
2.47 
1.33 
1.60 
io 10. 63 
1.33 
3.36 
Snapbeans 
Tomatoes 
4.00 
3.00 
3.00 
3.00 
4.00 
1.53 
2.28 
1.08 
, .50 
1.53 
10.20 
4.00 
4.00 
3.20 
18 6. 15 
2.00 
2.00 
16 7. 34 
2.00 
17.30 
12.80 
15.37 
Sugar beets 
.50 
15.78 
The figures in the above table include extra labor, mainly at harvest times, which in all cases, even when 
done by children, is reduced to the equivalent of man time. This extra labor is as follows: 
i Extra days man labor, 22.68 in third column; 0.2 in other columns. 
2 Extra days man labor, 34.50 in column 4; 0.50 in other columns. 
3 Extra days man labor, 20 in column 5; 1.34 in other columns. 
4 Extra days horse labor, 3 (hauling). 
& Extra days man labor, 17 in column 5; 2.28 in other columns. 
6 Extra days man labor, 8 in columns 4 and 5; 2 in other columns. 
7 Extra days man labor, 8 in column 5; 1.50 in other columns. 
8 Extra days man labor, 0.75, evenly distributed at each cutting. 
9 Total extra days man labor, 0.77. 
io Total extra days horse labor, 0.2 (planting), 
u Total extra days man labor, 0.80 (at harvesting and thrashing). 
i 2 Extra days man labor, 22.50 (picking by boys and girls). 
13 Extra days man labor, 18 in columns 4 and 5 (picking, mainlv women and children); in other columns, 
1.25. 
" Extra days man labor, 2 (digging) in column 5; 0.9 in other columns. 
15 Extra days man labor, 13.60 in column 5 (harvest, mainly children); 5.33 in other columns, of which 
4 are used in weeding before Sept. 1 (done by boys). 
16 Extra days horse labor, 2.67 (hauling). 
17 Extra days man labor, 5 in column 5 (harvesting), 1.97 in other columns includes thinning about 
June 1 (done by boys). 
i 8 Extra days horse labor, 3.75 (hauling beets). 
The type of farming followed, as well as the size of business, is 
an important^determining factor in the net return to the large or- 
chardist, while in the case of the general farmers size of business is 
the chief factor in their net returns. The size of business is an im- 
