4 BULLETIN 961, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table II. — Summary of operations, implements, crews, and acreages reported most 
frequently by hill farmers of Louinzni (677 reports) — Continued. 
Operation. 
Implement or 
method. 
Cultivator 
do.... 
do.... 
Size. 
4-foot row... 
....do 
....do 
....do 
....do 
....do 
Broadcast. . . 
1 row 
3-foot row . 
do.... 
do.... 
do.... 
2-foot row . 
Cultivating corn 
Cultivating corn middles. 
Do 
T hinnin g corn ' By hand 
Hoeing corn ! do . . 
Planting peas in corn j do.. 
Do ' do.. 
Do I Planter . 
Pull and pile corn | By hand 
Haul corn from pile ! Wagon . 
Pull and haul corn j do 
Planting peanuts By hand. . 
Cover peanuts Turn plow 
Hoeing peanuts By hand . . 
Cultivating peanuts Cultivator. 
Pulling peanuts ; By hand . . 
Shocking peanuts j do 
Stacking peanuts j do 
Drop sweet potatoes I do 3Wootrow 
Set sweet potatoes I do do 
Bar off sweet potatoes j Turn plow | do 
Cultivating sweet potatoes. . .. Shovel cultivator. . do 
Hoeing sweet potatoes ; By hand do 
Cutting sweet potato vines j do \ 
Drag sweet potatoes Turn plow 3^-foot row 
Plow up sweet potatoes Middle buster | 3J-foot row . 
Picking up sweet potatoes By hand 
Cultivate sugar cane Shovel cultivator 
Hoeing sugar cane By hand 
Planting cow peas I do 
Do Planter 
Mowing cow peas Mower 
Raking cow peas Rake 
Planting oats , By hand 
Mowing oats Mower 
Cutting oats By hand 
Binding oats ■ . . . . .do I 
Shocking oats ' do j 
Mowing hav Mower ; 4Jfeet 
Raking hav Rake ' 10 feet 
-Picking cotton Byhand o636... 
Making cane sirup Crusher and vat... 
5-foot row . 
do.... 
Broadcast. 
1 row 
4* feet 
9 feet 
Broadcast. 
4+ feet 
Fur- 
rows. 
Men. 
Mules. 
Acres 
per day. 
3.82 
i. 56 
3.81 
2.39 
2.08 
7.18 
15.53 
T.55 
3.43 
7.52 
6.58 
3.81 
5.91 
1.20 
2.88 
1.08 
1.62 
1.63 
1.13 
1.04 
3.16 
3.14 
.74 
.93 
2.79 
4.57 
.42 
4.75 
.65 
13.50 
5.69 
6.23 
14.83 
14. 11 
7.60 
3.24 
3.33 
7.06 
5.83 
12. 65 
6 130 
c73.2 
a Average pounds seed cotton per acre. 
6 Pounds seed cotton per day. 
Gallons per day. 
SIGNIFICANCE OF CREW DUTY AND LABOR REQUIREMENTS. 
The terra "crew" as used here, means the number of men, or men 
and mules, required to perform an operation. Crews vary in size 
from one man, or one man and one horse, to several of each. The 
word "duty" as used here means normal performance, that is, what 
is actually done under normal conditions, rather than what should 
or could be done. "Crew duty/' then, means the usual amount of 
work a crew can do in one day at a given operation. It is a normal 
day's work. For example, if a man hoes on the average an acre 
of cotton per day, his duty is here given as 1 acre. If a man and 
team break 2 acres of land per day, then the crew duty for such a 
crew is 2 acres. If a man uses a four-horse team and hauls 3 cords 
of wood per day, then the duty for this crew is 3 cords. 
There are many factors affecting crew duty, such as stumps, size 
of fields, topography, ditches, kind of soil, size of mules, character 
of labor, and climatic conditions. Stumps are perhaps the greatest 
