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BULLETIN 1446, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
weeding once; drilling 266 acres of this land to winter wheat in the 
fall, 9 acres to barley in the spring; plowing, harrowing three 
times, and drilling in the fall 10 acres of w T heat for pasture purposes 
on nonsummer-f allow land. In addition there would be grain 
harvesting and marketing, hay harvest, and picking up and storing 
chaff. 
Table 28. 
Division of farm area, production and 
for a 640-acre farm 
ion of crops; standards 
Item 
Farm 
area 
Normal yield 
per acre 
Production 
Disposition 
Feed 
Seed 
Sold 
Acres 
238 
20 bushels 
4,760 bushels .. 
47 tons 
28 tons 
Bushels 
110 
All. 
All. 
All. 
240 
Bushels 
345 
Bushels 
4,305 
Winter wheat, hay. __-__ 
28 
10 
9 
275 
70 
1 ton 
28 bushels 
252 bushels 
12 
Native pasture . .. 
Waste 10 
1 
Table 29. — Livestock and feed requirements; standards for a 640-acre farm 
Livestock 
Feed requirements 
Wheat 
hay 
Chaff 
Barley 
Wheat 
Chicken 
feed 
Pounds 
42, 000 
4,000 
3,000 
6, 000 
Pounds 
58, 800 
5,600 
4,200 
18,000 
6,000 
Pounds 
9,600 
Pounds 
Pounds 
2 two-year-old colts _ _ ... 
2 yearlings colts . 
3,000 
1,000 
3 hogs.. ... ... . . 
3,000 
120 
100 chickens 1 
3. 600 
1,280 
Total. . 
56, 000 
101, 000 
11, 520 fi. fiOO 
1,280 
1 In addition to quantities shown about 2,000 pounds of feed would be foraged. 
The farm operator should be able to do the summer fallow and 
seeding work and haul the wheat to market. This would necessitate 
the hiring of very little extra man labor except during the period for 
harvesting and marketing wheat, hay harvest, and picking up and 
storing chaff. In a normal season all of this work w r ould be completed 
not later than August 25. Standards w r ith respect to size of crew, size 
and type of implements used, and amount of work done are shown in 
Table 30. 
Under normal weather conditions the ground should be sufficiently 
dry to allow the plowing to start about March 15. The importance 
of early plowing on these farms can not be overemphasized. Experi- 
ments conducted at the Agricultural Experiment Station, at Moro, 
to determine the effect on the yield of wheat obtained after early and 
after late spring plowing, have shown a very decided advantage in 
favor of early plowing. 
Plowing should be completed not later than May 1 and usually the 
cultivation of the summer-fallow should start, especially if the acreage 
is large, before all of the plowing has been completed and should be 
continued often enough to keep the ground free from weeds. The 
season for harvesting is during the month of July, and wheat seeding 
should be done from September 1 5 to October 30 when moisture con- 
ditions are most favorable for seed germination. 
