14 BULLETIN 961, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XVI. — Hauling cotton — one man and two mules. 
Length of haul. 
Bales 
Number 
per 
of 
day. 
reports. 
2.24 
33 
1.94 
35 
1.77 
31 
1.68 
22 
1.00 
8 
1.45 
11 
2.00 
10 
1.66 
10 
1.08 
12 
2.50 
8 
2.74 
12 
2.37 
8 
2.72 
18 
2.70 
10 
2.37 
9 
Number of bales 
per day most fre- 
quently reported. 
Hauling to gin 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Hauling to gin and market 
Do 
• Do 
Hauling to market 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do 
Do... 
Less than 1 mile 
1 to 2 miles 
2 to 3 miles 
3 to 4 miles 
4 to 5 miles 
5 to 10 miles 
1 to 2 miles 
2 to 3 miles 
4 to 5 miles 
Less than 1 mile 
1 to 2 miles 
3 to 4 miles 
5 to 6 miles 
7 to 8 miles 
9 to 10 miles 
2 (17 reports). 
2 (26 reports). 
2 (24 reports). 
fl (8 reports). 
[2 (13 reports). 
1 (8 reports). 
Do. 
2 (10 reports). 
2 (6 reports). 
1 (11 reports). 
2 (5 reports). 
2 (6 reports). 
Do. 
2 (12 reports). 
2 (6 reports). 
2 (5 reports). 
Fig. 5. — Cotton gin, showing a large number of men waiting their turn at the gin. Much time is lost ir» 
this way. 
LABOR REQUIREMENTS OF COTTON. 
The man and mule labor requirements of cotton by operations — 
that is, the amount of man and mule labor required when all of the 
operations are performed, are shown in Table XVII. 
To determine by this table the amount of labor per acre required 
on cotton for a given farm, simply foot the figures for the operations 
performed on that farm. 
It will be noticed that the greater part of the man labor is required 
for picking, the next largest for hoe work, and the next for culti- 
