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BULLETIN 961, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In this region oats are usually either cut by hand, bound and fed 
in the sheaf, or cut with a mower, raked, and fed as a hay crop. 
Oats are very seldom thrashed as a grain crop. Binders are very 
seldom used. (See Table XL-Ill.) 
Table XLIII. — Harvesting oats. 
Crew. 
Num- 
ber of ; 
re- 
ports. 
Average 
acreage 
Acreage reported 
Men. Mules. 
per most frequently, 
day. 
1 1 
1 
1 
1 
10 
2.5 
21 
23 
7.60 
3.21 
3.33 
7.06 
Scattering. 
3 (11 reports'!. 
3 (12 reports). 
6 (8 reports). 
Binding bv hand 
: 
The dutv of two-men crews with a team ; hauling oats, is shown in 
Table XLIV: 
Table XLIV. — Hauling oats for grain. 
Acreage reported 
most frequently. 
Yield per acre: 
12 to 61 bushels 
Hauling oats for hay to barn: 
I to 14 tons 
Number 
of 
reports. 
Average 
acreage 
per day. 
23 
10 
S.04 
7.15 
'6 (5 reports'). 
10 (5 reports). 
Scattering. 
LABOR REQUIREMENTS OF OATS. 
The labor required per acre on oats is shown in Table XLV. This 
table presents figures for operations at preparation work, seeding, 
and harvesting when the crop is handled either as a grain crop or as 
a hay crop. When oats are harvested as a grain crop, cutting and 
binding is usually done by hand. Up to the time of harvest there is 
no difference in the operations, hence the duplication of figures in the 
columns down to the time of cutting. 
Table XLV. — Labor requirements per acre for oats. 
Oats for grain. 
Oats for hay. 
Operation. 
Hours per acre. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
Hours per acre. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
Man. 1 Mule. 
Man. 
Mule. 
Cut stalks 
1.2 
7.1 
1.6 
1.1 
.7 
2.4 
10.1 
6.0 
2.0 
8 
Break 
Disk 
7.1 
10.1 
28 
19 
8 
Harrow 
1.1 
2.0 
17 
26 
25 
IS 
20 
3.3 
2.1 
.6 
i. 3 21 
Bake 1 
1. 2 19 
Bind . , 
3.1 
21 
24 
1.4 
3. 6 
Haul 
3.2 
30 
3. 6 3. 2 1 20 
