22 BULLETIN 748, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the cultivator at frequent intervals until the beets are so large that 
it is impossible to follow the rows. (See Table XII.) 
In the Ohio district either the 2-row walking or the 4-row riding 
cultivator was used. In other districts the 1-row or 2-row riding or 
Fic. 14—Cultivating sugar beets with a 2-row walking cultivator. 
walking cultivator was used (figs. 14 and 15). It has been the 
custom of the Ohio sugar companies to rent 2-row walking culti- 
yators at a charge of 25 cents per acre for the season to sugar-beet 
farmers desiring them.1 
TABLE XII.—Cultivating. 
81 | 7.956 7.56 
] ] | 
| Ae Hours of labor per 
Ber centile seer |e Cimes -acTe. Labor 
District. ofall |P Calti= culti- cost per 
records. | Tate d vated. acre. 
F Man Horse. 
CER S BR ae ee AE ne ete 69 13.20 4.58 9.05 9.05 $2. 56 
SATIN Eee eee ere eee eee & hk eae ene Soe 89 9.30 6. 20 11.55 11.55 3.47 
GrandPRapids 2s sess eas sees eee eee 83 6. 09 4.88 11. 92 11. 92 3. 57 
Northwestern Ohio =25 2-322 e2 422 S Sea 4.00 2. 27 
13. 21 
1The type of cultivator used was a factor that caused the comparatively high labor 
requirement for cultivation in these districts, as may be seen by reference to the following 
table, which gives a record of the work by a 1-1 crew with a 2-row cultivator in com- 
parison with work done by a 1—2 crew operating a 4-row cultivator. 
Labor requirements for cultivating in northwestern Ohio. 
| 
| 
Crew. 
| Records. 
ieman—i( horses! Bae ee ee, ee ee | 
feman=2) NOTSeS 8s oe eee eee 
i 
20 | 
He bo 
Hours per acre. 
Times 
over. 
M Man. Horse. 
4.0 7.56 | 7.56 
4.1 3.86 7% 
Labor 
cost per 
acre. 
$2. 27 
1.54 
It will be seen that there was a difference here of 3.7 hours of man labor 
The difference in cost amounted to 73 cents per acre. 
the 4-row cultivator. 
in favor of 
+, "See. 
