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Table 22. — Man-labor requirement per acre, by operations for rye, 1921-1922 — 
Continued. 
Hours per acre 
Farm No. ! 
Seeding 
Cutting 
Shocking 
Stacking 
Stack 
threshing 
Shock 
threshing 
Total 
9 . 
Hours 
0.48 
.58 
.37 
.53 
.99 
.64 
.66 
.39 
1.32 
Hours 
0.63 
.81 
.57 
.84 
.90 
1.28 
.82 
1.28 
1.25 
Hours 
0.87 
.60 
.60 
.84 
1.26 
1.44 
.99 
1.58 
2.22 
Hours 
Hours 
Hours 
1.91 
1.97 
1.57 
Hours 
6.11 
10 
6.48 
24 
6.60 
23_ 
2.12 
2.53 
2.88 
2.43 
1.38 
1.62 
1.60 
1.05 
8.63 
21 
10.18 
6 . 
10.18 
8 
11.04 
18 
5.06 
11.66 
2 
4.17 
.72 
13.18 
Average, all farms.. 
.60 
.82 
.98 
2.78 
1.22 
2.12 
4 7. 83 
1 Computed on basis of shock threshing. 
Table 23. — Horse-labor requirements per acre, by operations for rye, 1921- 
Acres 
Yield 
(bush- 
els per 
acre) 
Plowing 
Disking 
Harrowing 
Farm No. 1 
Total 
Times 
over 
Total 
Times 
over 
Total 
Times 
over 
9 
29 
29 
35 
20 
11 
6 
15 
10 
15 
15 
11 
20 
22 
12 
26 
20 
44 
11 
Hours 
8.42 
( 2 ) 
( 3 ) 
9.74 
5.68 
7.77 
12.03 
11.45 
8.28 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
Hours 
Hours 
2.11 
2.99 
2.20 
2.32 
1.62 
1.60 
1.38 
2.37 
3.67 
1.30 
10 
2.63 
24 
5.00 
2.00 
2.00 
23 
2.00 
21 
1.35 
.59 
1.16 
6 
2.00 
8 
2.63 
1.00 
2.00 
18 
3.00 
2 
3.00 
Average, all farms.. 
18 
4 9. 15 
1.00 
1.35 
.54 
2.34 
2.08 
Hours per acre 
Farm No. 1 
Seeding 
Cutting 
Stacking 
Stack 
threshing 
Shock 
threshing 
Total 
9.... 
Hours 
0.92 
2.33 
.74 
1.61 
2.98 
2.56 
2.17 
1.58 
3.95 
Hours 
2.52 
3.16 
1.83 
3.37 
3.61 
5.13 
3.29 
5.13 
4.98 
Hours 
Hours 
Hours 
3.34 
3.34 
3.14 
Hours 
17.31 
10 
11.82 
24 
12.91 
23 
2.17 
3.43 
3.85 
1.97 
2.28 
.72 
2.24 
.84 
21.49 
21.. 
19.39 
6 
23.15 
8 
24 31 
13 . 
3.69 
24.22 
n 
3.90 
.57 
25 35 
1.81 
3.19 
2.87 
1.31 
3.81 
4 21 65 
1 Farms are arrayed in order of man-labor requirements, beginning with the lowest. 
8 1.77 tractor hours per acre for plowing. 
8 1.83 tractor hours per acre for plowing. 
4 Only acreage plowed with horses included in this average. 
4 Computed on basis of shock threshing. 
The high requirements for the harvesting and threshing operations 
on farm IS were due to the high yield. This unusual yield was 
secured on an old lake bed that had just been drained and plowed up 
for the first time. 
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