FIELD AND CROP LABOR ON GEORGIA FARMS 21 
Table 24. — Cultivating peanuts 
Operation, implement, number of furrows, and crew 
Width of 
row 
Number 
of reports 
Average 
acreage 
per day 
Acreage reported 
most frequently 
Feet 
3 
6 
7 
2H 
3 
%y<i 
6 
7 
} 3 
3H 
3 
16 
16 
14 
25 
22 
9 
44 
22 
22 
25 
25 
11 
32 
9 
11 
1.50 
1.61 
1.98 
2.12 
2.45 
2.39 
3.40 
3.52 
5.66 
6.44 
6.84 
6.18 
6.17 
7.22 
13.55 
1 (6 reports). 
Do—. 
(1 (8 reports). 
\2 (4 reports). 
2 (7 reports). 
Do.. ---- 
Do 
2 (9 reports). 
Do. 
2 (13 reports). 
Side (scooter or scrape, 2 furrows, 1 man, 1 mule) 
Do — - 
2 (4 reports). 
3 (15 reports). 
Do 
/3 (10 reports). 
\iy 2 (8 reports). 
f5 (7 reports). 
Do „ 
Do 
\6 (7 reports) . 
6 (8 reports). 
Do 
17 (5 reports). 
\8 (6 reports). 
6 (5 reports). 
(6 (7 reports). 
\8 (10 reports). 
7 (5 reports). 
Cultivate middles (shovel cultivator, 1 furrow, 1 man, 
1 mule) . 
Do 
Weed (1 furrow, 1 man, 1 mule) 
/10 (4 reports). 
\15 (3 reports). 
Table 25. — Harvesting peanuts 
(1 man) 
Method 
Number 
of re- 
ports 
tus e hels e Bushels reported 
per day most frequently 
Scratch 
10 
72 
1.60 1 \y 2 (5 reports). 
Pick 
1 62 'Z 1 ^ (30 reports). 
1,oz ,\2 (31 reports). 
SWEET POTATOES 
Sweet potatoes are bedded in an open bed or coldframe early in 
March to obtain slips for planting. Three or four bushels of seed are 
ordinarily required to produce enough slips to plant an acre. Four- 
teen men each reported bedding enough sweet potatoes in a day to 
plant an average of 8^2 acres. When the slips are planted, three 
operations are necessary; pulling, dropping in rows, and setting the 
slips. Table 26 shows the achievements of one man at the combined 
planting operations. 
The operations of cultivating sweet potatoes are about the same 
as for the previous crops. The total time is greater because of the 
manner in which the crop grows. (Fig. 10.) During the cultivating 
season after the vines start to run it is necessary to keep them all 
on one side of the row. To do this, they are turned by hand with a 
stick just ahead of the cultivator. After one side of the row is 
worked, the vines are again turned so that the other side may be 
worked. This operation is repeated as often as siding is done. 
Table 27 shows the different operations for cultivating and Table 28 
the performance of one man when turning the vines. 
Such a variety of harvesting methods were used that not enough 
reports were obtained on any one way, nor for a given width of row, 
to show the crew performance for the individual harvesting operations 
