LABOR REQUIREMENTS OF ARKANSAS CROPS. 
23 
CLOVER AND TIMOTHY. 
Red clover is started by sowing on wheat or oats in the spring. 
(Fig. 20.) It i? clipped in the summer, but ordinarily makes no crop, 
until the next year in the region to which the red clover chart applies. 
If the clover is unmixed or is mixed with orchard grass it is cut in 
June and again the last of July or early in August. If mixed with 
timothy the cutting is delayed until the timothy is ready, which is 
the last of June or early in July. (Fig. 21.) The seasonal distribu- 
tion of labor is thus different in the two cases. These crops may also 
be planted in the fall. 
Fig. 20.— Labor on 10 acres of 
red clover cut twice for hay, 
northwestern Arkansas. 
Conditions.— Northwestern 
part of State; region of medium 
sized farms operated by white 
people; cut with mower; raked 
ana bunched with horse rake; 
pitched by hand; hauled to barn 
on wagons and unloaded with 
horse fork; assumed yield, 1 ton 
per acre on first cutting and half 
a ton on second cutting. Or- 
chard grass is ready for cutting at 
the same time as red clover, hence 
the chart for red clover would 
apply to orchard grass also. 
Seed sown in March, 10 to 12 
pounds per acre; cut first time in 
June of the next year; cut second 
time in July and August. 
NUMBER 
OF 
DAYS 
45 
JAN. FEB. MAR APR. 
MONTHS 
MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC 
NUMBER 
OF 
DAYS 
45 
M> 
\N L 
16 
ABC 
DA 
)R 
40 
■ 
40 
35 
35 
30 
30 
25 
■ 
25 
20 
20 
15 
IS 
10 
io 
5 
i 
5 
M 
■ 
■ ■ 
25 
HO 
RSE 
16 
LA 
DA 
30R 
VS 
25 
20 
20 
IS 
IS 
io 
i 
IO 
4 
1 
■ 
* 
9 
Sow. 
Clip. 
First 
harvest. 
Second 
harvest. 
Total. 
Before 
harvest. 
Harvest. 
1 

1 
2 
8 
8 
6 
6 
16 
16 
2 
2 
14 
Horse days 
14 
