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BULLETIN 961, IT. S. DEPARTMENT QF AGRICULTURE. 
sidered under each crop heading. Where crew duty is shown for 
such operations as bedding, harrowing, or dragging beds and laying 
off rows, the width of the rows is given. At such work the width of 
the row is the important thing to be considered in determining crew 
duty. 
Stalks are usually cut on all land intended for cotton. Stalk 
cutting may, therefore, include the cutting of both corn and cotton 
stalks. The average width of all rows from which stalks are cut is 
4 feet. (See Table III.) 
Fig. 1.— One man and one mule breaking sod land, followed by a 3-foot disk drawn by two mules. 
Table III. — Cutting cotton and corn stalks. 
Method. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
tcVeS Acreage reported 
perda g y. j most frequently. 
11 
109 
3.65 j 4 (5 reports). 
7.75 1 8 (62 reports). 
1-row stalk cutter (1 man and 2 mules) 
Breaking follows stalk cutting on all land previously planted to 
cotton or corn. Most of the reports show this operation as being 
done by one man and two mules. Where plows of a size smaller than 
8 inches are used, the work is done by one man and one mule, (see 
fig.l.) No figures are given for this size of crew, owing to the small 
number of reports. (See Table IV.) 
