A STUDY OF FARM ORGANIZATION IN CENTRAL KANSAS 
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Table 8. — Man labor and horse work used 'per 100 bushels of wheat for hauling 
wheat from the thresher to the bin or to the elevator and from the bin to the elevator 
Hauling from 
thresher to bin 
per 100 bushels 
Hauling from bin to 
local elevator per 100 
bushels 
Total per 100 
bushels 
Hauling direct 
from thresher 
to elevator 
per 100 bushels 
Farm No. 
Labor 
Dis- 
tance to 
Labor 
Labor 
Labor 
Man 
Horse 
local 
elevator 
Man 
Horse 
Man 
Horse 
Man 
Horse 
13 
Hours 
1.88 
1.47 
2.10 
1.54 
2.70 
3.41 
2.75 
4.35 
4.22 
3.07 
5.31 
2.91 
Hours 
4.52 
2.95 
4.53 
3.08 
3.60 
3.41 
2.93 
6.64 
10.75 
3.73 
7.09 
4.34 
Miles 
2.0 
1.0 
3.5 
3.5 
3.5 
5.0 
5.0 
3.0 
5.0 
6.0 
9.0 
4.2 
Hours 
3.42 
4.50 
4.07 
5.49 
5.74 
5.81 
6.52 
5.66 
6.29 
8.71 
11.54 
5.96 
Hours 
9.07 
9.00 
8.14 
10.98 
11.47 
11.62 
13.04 
11.33 
18.71 
17.42 
23.01 
12.70 
Hours 
5.30 
5.97 
6.17 
7.03 
8.44 
9.22 
9.27 
10.01 
10.51 
11.78 
16.85 
8.87 
Hours 
13.59 
11.95 
12.67 
14.06 
15.07 
15.03 
15.97 
17.97 
29.46 
21.15 
30.10 
17.04 
Hours 
3.00 
3.79 
6.89 
6.02 
Hours 
6.00 
16 
6.14 
17 
9.19 
4 . 
12.04 
10 
5 
8 
6.35 
5.96 
4.56 
16.04 
9 
11.93 
11.42 
6 
18 
Average 1 1 farms 
4.65 9.57 
Only a very small acreage of wheat was headed on the farms in- 
cluded in this study in 1922. The yield and requirements of man 
labor and horse work for heading wheat on nine farms in 1921 are 
FARM 
NO. 
YIELD 
BUS. PER 
ACRE 
HOURS 
3 
I4-.9 
.9 6 
J 
19.0 
1.3 2 
15 
21.2 
1.4-3 
12 
16.2 
1.4-9 
13 
18.0 
1.74- 
7 
13.8 
i.96 
10 
18.6 
2.4-9 
14 
19.0 
2.5 
6 
19.4 
2.5 6 
4- 
ia,3 
2.58 
2 
2 1.4 
2.99 
17 
27.2 
3.26 
8 
21.9 
3.6 3 
LABOR IN STACKING WHEAT 
MAN HOURS PER ACRE 
I 2 3 
mL ^ M ^ m 
1 
1 
| WEIGH 
, AVER A 
r 
1 
TED 
GE 
1 
1 
1 
1 ■llllll II IUI ■IJJUILLJ 
1 1 1 
1 1 
1 ! 
' 
1.67 
1.40 
1.76 
2.06 
2.3 1 
2.55 
3.37 
3.37 
3.63 
3.16 
3.23 
4-.69 
4-.78 
HORSE HOURS PER ACRE 
12 3 4 
1 
VEIGMTEC 
AVERAGE 
1 
■MUM 
M.rillT 
I 
■ 
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JFig. 14.— Stacking wheat takes a great deal of time, but it reduces the work necessary in threshing 
REQUIREMENTS FOR HEADING WHEAT 
shown in Figure 15. In comparing these figures with those for bind- 
ing, shocking, and stacking in 1922, it should be noted that the yield 
was more than 50 per cent greater in 1922. 
On farms 7 and 19, 12-foot headers were used, whereas 10-foot 
headers were used on the other farms. Farms 7 and 19 are two of the 
farms lowest in man and horse hours used per acre. Farm 19 had also 
the lowest yield per acre. The usual header crew consists of 6 men 
and 10 horses. One man and 6 horses are used to operate the header 
and 2 men and 2 horses for each of the two header barges used to haul 
the grain to the stack. One man ordinarily does the stacking. Head- 
