LABOR REQUIREMENTS OE AP KANSAS CROPS. 
51 
RICE. 
The rice chart is the only one for which 100 acres is used as a basis 
but it is comparable with the cotton, corn, hay, and grain charts, 
because the acreage and the scale are both 10 times those of the 
latter charts. (Fig. 50.) 
Rice requires some work every month of the year. No sooner does 
the rice farmer thresh one crop than he begins plowing for the next. 
Horse work is assumed in this chart, but tractors are more common 
in the rice region than in any other part of Arkansas, and these reduce 
the amount of man labor required. 
The two principal varieties of rice are the Early Prolific and the 
Blue Rose. It is becoming popular to plant both varieties, so that 
the harvest will not all come at one time. 
Fig. 50.— Labor on 100 acres of 
rice, eastern Arkansas. 
Conditions. — Silty soils: east 
central part of State; large farms; 
preparation with four-horse 
teams, although tractors are used 
extensively; pumping done with 
oil engines; if done with steam 
engines the labor is more; if done 
with electric motors it is less; 
cutting sometimes done with one 
man and four horses, but oftener 
with two men and sis horses; 
binder carries an engine that 
operates the machine even when 
the teams stop ; threshing entirely 
from the shock; yield, 50 bushels 
per acre; haul 4 to 5 miles to 
market; seed, 1 to 3 bushels per 
acre; planted April 15 to early 
June; Early Prolific harvested in 
September and Blue Rose in late 
September and in October. 
MUHBEB 
or 
DAYS 
450 
MONTHS 
JAM FEB. MAR AM MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT. NOV DEC 
NUMBER 
OF 
DAYS 
4SO 
— — 1 
M 
4 
■ 
IN I 
56 
Da 
YS 
400 
■ 
< 
400 
3 SO 
• J 
350 
300 
30O 
250 
- 
230 
200 
2CO 
ISO 
130 
IOO 
IOO 
so 
SO 
250 
HO 
61 
RSE 
15 
LA 
30R 
YS 
2SO 
20 O 
200 
150 
tso 
IOC 
■ 
too 
ST 
■ 
■ 
I 
1 
l 
■ 
■ 
S 
1 
1 
m 
so 
Pre- Pum P: 
me and 
land 1 levee 
J?* walk- 
plaDt ' | ing. 
Haul 
fuel. 
Cut 
and 
shock. 
Thresh 
and 
store. 
Mar- 
ket. 
Mis- 
cella- 
neous. 
, Before 
Total. 1 har- 
| vest. 
Har- 
vest 
and 
mar- 
ket. 
Man days 70 
120 

30 
75 
Ill 
115 
30 
70 
20 
31 
456 
625 
240 
360 
216 
Horsedays j 289 
60 
SO 
265 
