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BULLETIX 1348, U. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGEICULTUEE 
FRUIT a GENERAL FARMING REGION 
SEASONAL DISTmBUTiON OF TOTAL. LASOR 
ON A 
256 ACRE" DIVERSIFFED FARM 
: APPLES.HAY,BEANS.WHEAT.POTATOES.PEAS.OATS.CORN & PASTURE 
WESTERN NEW YORK 
Fig. 30. — Fruit growing and general farming are the more common tjTJes of farming in western 
New York. The intensive fruit farms, which are found mostly within a few miles of the shores 
of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and bordering the inland lakes, usually have only a few acres 
of farm crops. Lq the general farming area lying back of the fruit belt small to medium-sized 
apple orchards are found on many farms. The man-labor requh-sment on these diversified 
farms is quite uniform throughout the growing season with the exception of the haying and 
harvesting period in midsummer and again during the period of fall seeding and of bean, potato, 
and apple harvesting. The farm for which labor distribution is shown in the graph above is 
in a diversified farming region, and although an apple orchard is a common enterprise in this 
region it is unusual to find an orchard so large in proportion to other enterprises. There were 
on this farm in the year illustrated in the graph above 40 acres of app es in full bearing and 2 
of pears, 48 of hay, 26 of wheat, 19 of beans, 19 of oats, 15 of peas, 12 acres of corn for silage, 9 
acres of rye, 7 of potatoes, 7 of pasture, and a half acre of cabbage and other vegetables. Two 
men were hired by the j^ear, another man was employed during July and August, and dioring 
the latter half of Septernber 2 to 4 extra men were hired by the day. During October and early 
November a force varying from 8 to 24 in number was employed in picking and packing the 
apple crop. 
Note.— In figs. 30 to 36, inclusive, each small rectangular area in black represents a total of 100 
hours' labor spent in a 10-day period. The white lines that sometimes divide the shaded 
mark ofi time spent working olf the farm. (U. S. Dept. Agr. Circ. 183.) 
