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Table IV. — Estimated average primary horsepower per worker and per farm, 
average horsepower-hours utilized annually per worker, per farm, and per 
improved acre, and horsepower-hours of power utilized per hour of human 
labor 
State 
Maine 
New Hampshire- - _ 
Vermont 
Massachusetts 
Ehode Island 
Connecticut 
New York 
New Jersey 
Peimsylvania 
Delaware 
Maryland 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
Florida 
Kentucky 
Tennessee 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
Louisiana 
Arkansas 
Texas 
Oklahoma 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Illinois 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
Iowa 
Missouri 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Nebraska 
Kansas 
Montana 
Wyoming 
Colorado 
New Mexico 
Arizona 
Utah 
Nevada 
Idaho 
Washington.. - 
Oregon 
California 
United States 
Average primary 
horsepower 
Per 
worker 
Per 
farm 
4.0 
4.0 
4.2 
6.0 
4.7 
5.0 
5.4 
6.0 
5.9 
5.0 
5.6 
6.1 
9.6 
8.9 
7.8 
8.5 
11.7 
8.0 i 
Average horsepower-hours utilized 
annually 
Per 
worker 
4.2 
7.1 
4.6 
8.7 
2.4 
3.8 
2.5 
3.2 
1.4 
2.5 
1.3 
2.7 
1.3 
2.5 
2.2 
4.4 
2.0 
2.9 
1.9 
3.0 
1.0 
2.0 
1.1 
2.0 
1.9 
4.0 
1.6 
2.8 
3.3 
6.0 
4.3 
7.0 
5.6 
7.8 
5.4 
7.7 
7.6 
12.1 
5.3 
7.3 
5.6 
8.6 
7.0 
11.5 
9.8 
14.8 
4.7 
7.0 
14.1 
21.8 
14.1 
22.0 
11.0 
16.4 
10.4 
14.6 
13.0 
18.4 
10.4 
17.0 
8.4 
13.8 
4.1 
7.4 
6.1 
21.4 
5.4 
9.0 
8.1 
21.5 
8.8 
14.0 
7.4 
11.4 
7.2 
11.3 
8.9 
19.8 
4.5 
7.4 
1,230 
1,300 
1,340 
1,190 
1,050 
1,120 
1,530 
1,380 
1,600 
1,380 
1,320 
810 
900 
460 
410 
460 
550 
750 
700 
380 
420 
810 
670 
1,110 
1,450 
1,800 
1,850 
2,640 
1,770 
1,880 
2,360 
3, 210 
1,600 
4,580 
4,210 
3,380 
3,250 
3,920 
2,780 
2,470 
2,060 
1,500 
1,690 
2,260 
2,940 
2,800 
2,700 
4,540 
1,500 
Per 
farm 
Per im- 
proved 
acre 
1,550 I 
1,600 1 
1,920 
1,900 
1,950 
1,810 
2,420 
2,690 
2,200 
2,380 
2,480 
1,270 
1,230 
800 
900 
890 
1,100 
1,080 
1,090 
730 
780 
1,690 
1,150 
2,000 
2,350 
2,500 
2,620 
4,180 
2,450 
2,900 
3,860 
4,880 
2,370 
7,070 
6,570 
5,070 
4,560 
5,550 
4,500 
4,080 
3,720 
5,320 
2,840 
6,000 
4,680 
4,270 
4,220 
10,000 
58 
36 
51 
37 
36 
38 
25 
19 
26 
28 
21 
26 
21 
25 
19 
23 
40 
29 
28 
25 
35 
32 
36 
37 
44 
32 
36 
25 
22 
27 
27 
25 
29 
34 
32 
65 
74 
42 
32 
44 
40 
43 
100 
32 
Per hour 
of human 
labor 
0.41 
.44 
.45 
.40 
.35 
.37 
.51 
.46 
.53 
.46 
.44 
.27 
.30 
.16 
.14 
.15 
.18 
.25 
.23 
.12 
.14 
.27 
.22 
.37 
.48 
.60 
.62 
.63 
1.07 
.53 
1.52 
1.43 
1.13 
1.08 
1.37 
,82 
.50 
.56 
.75 
.93 
.90 
1.51 
.50 
