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40 BULLETIN 896, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The hauling was done largely with a crew of one man and two 
mules. A crew consisting of one man and one mule was used on a 
few farms. It will be observed that there was a wide variation in 
the average distance of hauling. Hauling distance is a factor which 
influences the amount of time required in doing the marketing and 
this in turn has a direct relation to the cost of placing the cotton 
upon the market. 
TOTAL MAN AND MULE LABOR REQUIREMENTS. 
The man and mule labor required in growing and delivering to 
gin or market the cotton covered in this survey has been computed 
by districts on the basis of a weighted average. (See Table XLI.) 
TasBLE XLI.— Man and mule labor requirements (per acre). 
Total hours Total hours | Total hours - 
F er acre if er acre if per acre, haul- 
Acres in cotton. ee Pp | ing to market 
i <eted at hauled to ln) Sep 
Num- gin. market! | p 2 
State and county. ber of _ included. 
records.) | ne rola Seas Sie kere 
Total pas Man. | Mule. | Man. | Mule. | Man. | Mule. 
aaa ae aT = Bea, Sle | =a Soar | ee | an 
Georgia: | 
Laurens County....----- | $5 1|3,968.0| 46.68| 123 56 | 127 63} - 142 63 
Greene County.--..------| 78 |4,147.5 | 53.17 130 59 132 63 150 63 
SumbenCountya.- 2522 -—- 80 |4, 188.5 52. 36 135 62 138 68 142 68 
Alabama: 
Tallapoosa County...----| 89 |1,169.0 | 13.13 123 57 127 65 138 65 
Marshall County...-...--- 90 |1, 249.5 13.88 127 58 130 63 131 63 
Dale Countys-ceeeeeee te. 90 |1,226.5 | 13.63 13h 53 122 62 127 62 
South Carolina: 
Anderson County...----.-| 89 |2,865.5 32. 20 130 55 132 59 145 59 
Barnwell County.-...---- 91 3,935.5 | 43.25 134 61 137 66 154 66 
Texas: | 
MisiCountya=-=eee 75 |8,148.0 | 108.64 | 56 37 (2) (2) 63 37 
Rsk Counties 25 -see roe 75 |2,568.0 | 34.24 | 84 46 87 52 99 52 
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1 Direct labor only, no supervision included. 2 All sold at gin. 
A very considerable part of the cotton crop in 1918 was not sold 
immediately after harvesting and ginning, but was held in ware- 
houses-or on the farms. -When held on the farm there is labor to 
account for in returning the lint from the gin, and this amount is 
increased still further when these bales are sold and marketed. In 
tabulating these data, the total hours per acre if marketed at the 
gin were determined. A second calculation was made, which shows 
the total hours of man and_horse labor when lint is hauled to market. 
The final columns of Table XLI include an allowance for hauling 
to market and supervision in these districts. 
Reasons may be found in the discussion of various practices and 
the occurrence of these cultural methods in the 10 districts under 
consideration for the wide difference in total hours of man and mule 
labor utilized in producing cotton in these districts. The average 
man labor requirement ranged from 63 hours per acre in Ellis County, 
