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BULLETIN 1271, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
to cultivate their checked corn four times, but weather conditions 
and the press of other work usually prevent the full accomplish- 
ment of this on the whole acreage. For the entire acreage the aver- 
age number of cultivations, including blind cultivation, is three and 
a'half. 
During the three years of this study, 73 per cent of all corn was 
husked from standing stalks. Most of this was husked by hand, 
although a mechanical picker was used on a small acreage. Eleven 
per cent was "hogged off." This latter practice is increasing rapidly. 
Nearly twice as much corn was hogged off in 1922 as in 1920. One 
farm hogged off 26 acres. Half of the farms have silos, and 11 per 
cent of all corn is siloed. The remaining 5 per cent is cut and fed 
in the bundle. 
LABOR REQUIREMENTS FOR CORN HUSKED FROM STANDING STALKS 
The labor requirements for corn husked from the standing stalk 
are presented in Tables 6 and 7. The acreage of corn given in these 
tables are the total for the farm and include silage corn, fodder 
corn, and corn hogged off, as well as that husked from standing 
stalks. Causes for variations in the time spent on seed-bed prepara- 
tion have already been discussed. In these tables, the number of 
hours is the total for each operation whether it was performed once 
or repeated, and does not represent a once-over figure as did those 
in Table 5. Where the operation is repeated, the number of times 
is indicated in the column following the hour figure. 
Table 6. — Man-labor requirements per acre, by operations, for corn husked from 
standing stalk, 1921 
Farm No. 1 
Average 18 
[arms: 

' 
1922^ 
Acres 2 
per 
farm 
Yield 
per 
acre 
Bushels 
31 
38 
29 
40 
31 
56 
55 
48 
55 
53 
50 
52 
41 
39 
41 
60 
45 
53 
51 
44 
58 
Plow- 
ing 
H0UTS 
3 1.98 
1.81 
3.03 
3 3.25 
2.54 
* 2. 18 
2.31 
3.01 
3.66 
3.01 
2.24 
3.23 
2.30 
3.23 
3.30 
3.28 
2.35 
4.34 
3.35 
3.47 
3.33 
2.87 
2. 70 
3.02 
Disking 
Harrowing 
Total ^ Total ^ 
Hours 
0.73 
.52 
.50 
1.50 
.41 
3.58 
.45 
.76 
.85 
.23 
.69 
1.00 
1.20 
.31 
1.26 
1.06 
.66 
1.38 
1.86 
.88 
.90 
1.55 
1.28 
1.00 
2.00 
.70 
1.67 
.80 
1.33 
1.65 
2.00 
1.41 
.56 
2.48 
1.60 
1.65 
2.13 
3.00 
1.31 
1.96 
Hours 
0.69 
.47 
.53 
.58 
.88 
.58 
.65 
.61 
.85 
1.23 
.76 
.72 
1.80 
1.34 
.39 
.72 
.72 
.81 
.35 
1.30 
1.23 
1. 82 . 79 
1. 54 . 94 
1. 56 | . 75 
2.75 
2.49 
2.41 
2.65 
2.93 
2.22 
2.50 
2.12 
3.26 
3.00 
3.17 
3.11 
3.46 
3.72 
1.87 
2, 75 
2.88 
2.45 
1.00 
2,77 
3.41 
2.74 
3.02 
2.59 
Plant- 
ing Total 
Cultivating 
Hours 
0.91 
.60 
.59 
.80 
.71 
.73 
.82 
.81 
.73 
1.06 
.61 
.73 
1.62 
.91 
.62 
.81 
.71 
.72 
1.00 
.85 
.86 
Hours 
2.70 
3.70 
3.72 
4.14 
4.74 
3.99 
3.99 
3.85 
4.12 
4.69 
3.24 
4.11 
5.25 
4.91 
6.20 
6.64 
4.47 
4.80 
8.85 
5.44 
6.52 
4. 72 
5.33 
5. 19 
Times 
2.62 
3.16 
3.00 
2.67 
3.00 
3.00 
2.89 
2.81 
2.80 
2.91 
2.28 
2.67 
2.84 
3.34 
3.23 
3.60 
3.79 
Husk- 
ing 
Hours 
5.64 
5.82 
4.55 
4.28 
5.85 
7.73 
7.78 
7.24 
7.08 
8.12 
11.46 
9.93 
7.59 
9.97 
9.18 
8.72 
12.72 
9.77 
7. 85 
11.84 
14.82 
7.96 
6.66 
Total 
Hours 
12 65 
12.92 
12 92 
14.55 
15. 13 
15.79 
16.00 
16.28 
17.29 
18.34 
19.00 
19.72 
19.76 
20.67 
20.95 
21.23 
21.63 
21.82 
23.26 
23.78 
27.66 
18.87 
18.69 
17.17 
1 Farms are arrayed in order of total man-labor requirements beginning with the lowest. 
e on farm. 
I Tractor used for pari of this operation. 
• Tractor used fur all plowing. 
om farms using tractor omitted in computing these averages. 
