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BULLETIN 1296, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
On farm 8, which has the second highest labor requirements for 
binding and the highest for shocking and stacking, a considerable 
amount of the work was done by boys. This is also partly respon- 
sible for the relatively high requirements for shocking on farm 10. 
The low shocking requirements on farm 17 were due to the use of an 
unusually efficient man for all of the shocking. 
REQUIREMENTS FOR HAULING WHEAT 
The man labor and horse work used for hauling wheat from the 
thresher to the bin or to the elevator, and from the bin to the ele- 
vator are shown in Table 8. These requirements are given on a 
FARM 
NO. 
Yl ELD 
BUS. PER 
ACRE 
HOURS 
6 
1 9.4 
.78 
17 
27.2 
.83 
3 
1 4.9 
.9 1 
14 
1 9.0 
.92 
1 1 
23.7 
1.07 
13 
1 8.0 
I.I 3 
12 
1 6.2 
I.I 8 
1 
1 9.0 
I.I 8 
18 
13.7 
I.I 9 
7 
1 3.8 
1.23 
5 
1 6.6 
1.24 
4 
1 8.3 
1.40 
2 
21.4 
1.40 
10 
1 8.6 
1.46 
15 
2 1.2 
1.64 
8 
2 1.9 
1.68 
LABOR IN SHOCKING WHEAT 
MAN HOURS 
PER ACRE 
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Fig. 13. — The time used for shocking wheat depends upon the yield and the ability of those who do the 
shocking 
100-bushel basis instead of an acre basis, because the latter classifi- 
cation has little significance in this case. The most important fac- 
tor affecting these requirements is the distance the grain is hauled. 
On farms 9, 7, and 18 the high requirements for hauling wheat from 
the thresher to the bin are largely accounted for by the distance 
from the fields to the bin. Almost twice as much labor is used per 
100 bushels when the wheat is hauled from the thresher to the bin 
and later hauled to the elevator rather than directly from the thresher 
to the elevator. Most of the hauling from the bin to the elevator is 
done at times when it does not interfere with other farm work. 
