STANDARDS OF LABOR. 
Table XXXII.- — Dropping and setting .street potato plants. 
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Width 
of 
row. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
Ave rage 
acreage 
per day. 
Acreage reported 
most frequently. 
Dropping (I man) 
Setting (l man) 
/3feet.... 
\3Vfeet... 
(3 feet.... 
\3ifeet... 
20 
24 
20 
24 
1.30 
1.13 
1.17 
1.04 
1 (8 reports). 
1 (11 reports). 
1 (8 reports). 
1(12 reports). 
The various operations in cultivating sweet potatoes, with crew 
duty at each, are shown in Table XXXIII. 
Table XXXIII. — Cultivating sweet potatoes. 
Operatioi 
Barring oil with turn plow (2 furrows, 1 man and 1 
mule). 
Cultivating (2 furrows, 1 man and 1 mule). 
Hoeing (1 man) . 
Width 
Number 
Average 
of row . 
ofreports. ™*£ 
.3 feet.... 
\3ifeet... 
10 
3.00 
12 
3.16 
/3feet.... 
\3*feet... 
41 
3.00 
21 
3.14 
iSfeet.... 
\3£feet... 
16 
.70 
15 
.74 
Acrerage reported 
most frequently. 
3 (10 reports). 
3 (6 reports). 
3 (11 reports). 
Do. 
0.5 (7 reports). 
Do. 
Turning vines is an operation which is necessary when it is desired 
to cultivate the crop after the vines have reached considerable length. 
Otherwise, the plow would break and tear away many of them. No 
figures are presented for this operation, however, as the number 
reporting was not large enough to give a reliable average. 
Some method of removing the vines is usually employed before 
plowing up sweet potatoes. They may be cut and raked off or they 
may be dragged off. Potatoes are generally plowed up with a middle 
buster. However, some growers still use the turning plow, going 
twice or four times to the row. (See Table XXXIV.) There are 
so few who market potatoes in this area that no figures for this 
operation are given. 
Table XXXIV. — Harvesting sweet potatoes. 
Operation. 
Cutting vinos (1 man) 
Dragging vin.es, turn plow (1 man and 1 
mule). 
Plowing up, middle buster (1 man and 2 
mules) 
Picking up (1 man) (average bushels) 
per acre, 135) J 
Hauling to barn (yield per acre): 
2 men and 2 mules 40 to 200 bu 
3 men and 2 mules 40 to 210 bu 
AVidth of row. 
3 to 4 feet . 
....do... 
3 feet.. 
3£feet. 
Number 
ofreports, 
Average 
acreage 
per day. 
0.93 
2.79 
4.38 
4.57 
1.62 
1.87 
Acreage reported 
most frequently. 
1 (7 reports). 
Scattering, 
4 (5 reports). 
(4 (5 reports). 
(6 (6 reports). 
f().33 (16 reports). 
1.0.50 (12 reports). 
Scattering. 
Do. 
