A STUDY OF FARM ORGANIZATION IN CENTRAL KANSAS 
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STANDARD REQUIREMENTS FOR WORK HORSES 
The following standard requirements are suggested for work 
horses performing 700 hours of work and having access to straw 
during the winter months. 
Grain pounds. _ 2, 000 
Alfalfa -_ do 800 
Prairie hav do 1, 400 
Fodder do 2,000 
Pasture days. _ 150 
Cost of veterinary, medicine and shoeing $0. 50 
Man labor hours.. 50 
Horse work do 15 
MISCELLANEOUS LABOR AND ITS RELATION TO THE CROP 
AND LIVESTOCK LABOR 
The man labor and horse work for the enterprises previously 
given include only the regular work on the crops and the different 
classes of livestock. In addition to this regular labor spent directly 
upon the different lines of production, there is also a large amount of 
labor of a miscellaneous or maintenance character. This labor 
may be classed as indirectly productive as contrasted with the 
directly productive labor on crops and livestock, but it must never- 
theless be performed. The most important classes of this indirectly 
productive labor are manure hauling, maintenance of machinery 
and real estate, hauling feed, garden work, preparing seed for seeding, 
and other miscellaneous crop and livestock labor. 
MANURE AND STRAW HAULING 
The time spent hauling manure and straw on 16 farms in 1922 
is shown in Table 28. None was hauled on two farms. Only a small 
Eortion of the crop area is covered each year. The straw is usually 
auled out on the wheat during December, January, and February to 
prevent blowing of the soil. Almost half of the manure is also 
hauled during these months, most of it going on the wheat. Some 
manure is put on alfalfa, corn, and the various other feed crops. 
From May to November very little manure or straw is hauled. 
Table 28. — Manure and straw hauling 
Farm No. 
Total 
live- 
stock, 
units 
Loads 
Labor 
Man 
Uorse 
17 - --- 
Number 
13 
14 
16 
17 
17 
17 
18 
21 
21 
23 
25 
26 
33 
36 
40 
45 
48 
94 
29 
31 
25 
Number 
88 
16 
33 
136 
Hours 
88 
16 
33 
172 
Hours 
232 
3 
32 
14 
66 
11 
304 
18 - 
15 - 
38 
25 
8 
12 
29 
259 
50 
150 
70 
40 
95 
57 
30 
17 
15 
27 
259 
84 
317 
95 
67 
83 
168 
10 
60 
7 
51 
12 . 
30 
13 
54 
6 . - .- 
382 
16 
156 
2 . - 
392 
9 
194 
8 - 
90 
4 - 
258 
1 
167 
68 
48 
53 
139 
83 
77 
54 
242 
Average: 
18 farms 1922 - 
151 
173 
19 farms, 1920 - 
109 
