A STUDY OF FARM ORGANIZATION IN CENTRAL KANSAS 
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moisture and available plant food late in the season. After the 
wheat is seeded, little attention is given to it during the winter. In 
case there is danger of blowing of the soil, straw or manure may be 
spread over those parts of the field on which blowing is most likely 
to occur. In those years in which a good fall or winter growth is 
secured, the wheat is pastured. In some years a considerable wheat 
acreage is abandoned on account of weather conditions adverse to 
the germination and growth of the crop. This land then goes into 
forn, oats, or other spring crops and back into Wheat the Following 
call. 
The wheat is usually bound and shocked. It may then be stacked, 
or threshed directly from the shock. Farmers having large areas in 
wheat frequently bind until the wheat is dry enough to permit head- 
ing and then head the remainder of their crop. The threshing of the 
stacked bundle grain and headed grain may occur at any time dur- 
ing the summer or early fall, but shock threshing is done as soon as 
possible after harvest. Many of the farmers haul a part of their 
grain direct from the thresher to the elevator, but the greater portion 
of the wheat is usually binned on the farm at threshing time and 
hauled to the elevator at the convenience of the farmer. 
LABOR REQUIREMENTS FOR SEED-BED PREPARATION AND SEEDING OPERATIONS 
The labor requirements for seed-bed preparation and seeding of 
wheat are shown in Figures 7 to 11, and in Tables 4 and 5. The 
hours per acre of man labor, horse work, and tractor work for per- 
forming each operation once over are given in Figures 7 to 11. In 
Tables 4 and 5 the number of hours is the total for that operation 
whether it was performed once or repeated and does not represent a 
once-over figure as do those in the charts. Where the operation is 
repeated, the number of times is indicated in the column following 
the hour figure. 
Table 4. — Man-labor requirements per acre for u 
operations, 1922 
heat seed-bed preparation 
Area 
Yield 
per 
acre 
Plowing 
Listing 
Disking 
Harrowing 
Drill- 
ing 
Farm No. 
Labor 
Times 
over 
Labor 
Times 
over 
Labor 
Times 
over 
Labor 
Times 
over 
Total 
13 
Acres 
155 
254 
236 
128 
229 
151 
168 
250 
212 
323 
96 
139 
147 
82 
180 
148 
Bushels 
18.0 
19.0 
16.6 
16.2 
18.3 
19.0 
19.4 
Hours 
0.75 
.28 
1.70 
1. 14 
1.27 
1.24 
11.52 
0.52 
.09 
.92 
.65 
.72 
.87 
.82 
1.00 
.72 
.45 
.92 
.45 
.97 
1.00 
.47 
.62 
.60 
.89 
.78 
Hours 
Hours 
0.24 
.16 
.32 
1.36 
.04 
.24 
.17 
1.22 
.20 
.05 
.11 
0.47 
.30 
.17 
.68 
.04 
.42 
.18 
.40 
.33 
.07 
.16 
Hours 
0.30 
.36 
.66 
.39 
.64 
.32 
1.25 
1.16 
.42 
1.42 
.42 
.44 
.64 
.94 
.56 
.84 
.50 
.63 
.58 
1.30 
1.09 
2.00 
1.77 
1.68 
1.59 
1.29 
.60 
2.00 
2.00 
1.84 
1.71 
2.07 
2.00 
1.82 
1.62 
1.80 
1.98 
1.96 
Hours 
0.43 
.49 
.64 
.48 
.30 
.51 
.61 
.79 
.61 
1.72 
.66 
.58 
.73 
.64 
.56 
.70 
.53 
.59 
.58 
Hours 
1.72 
1-. 
0.82 
0.61 
2 11 
5 
i 2.32 
12 
i 2. 37 
4 
.15 
.19 
.11 
.13 
2.40 
14 
2.50 
6. 
i 2.55 
2 
21. 4 i 1. 49 
13. 8 1 1. 02 
14. 9 i 1. 12 
27. 2 i 1. 81 
i 2.66 
7 
.54 
1.44 
.28 
.24 
2.79 
3 
1 2. 75 
17 
1 3.00 
15 
21.2 
18.6 
13.7 
21.9 
23.7 
1.24 
1.79 
1.79 
1.50 
1.49 
1.13 
2.07 
1.78 
.83 
.04 
.41 
.03 
3.09 
10. .. 
3.20 
18.. 
3.37 
8-.. 
.80 
.35 
.43 
.14 
.19 
.43 
.23 
.26 
.09 
.15 
.02 
.54 
.11 
.09 
.12 
.04 
1.00 
.19 
.15 
.16 
3.44 
11. 
3.92 
Average : 
1,548 acres, 
1,356 acres, 
1,259 acres, 
1922 2 _- 
2.70 
1921 2.. 
1923 2.. 
:::::::: 
3.52 
3.25 
i Tractor was used for all or part of the operation on this farm. 
1 All men using tractors for any wheat operation omitted from this average. 
