LABOR REQUIREMENTS OF ARKANSAS CROPS. 
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eluded. As it may be done at any time of the year, it can not be 
charted by months. The work of" hauling and applying stafele ma- 
nure is not included for any crops except radishes, cucumbers, musk- 
melons, and for the watermelon crop in Crawford County. 
Arranging the labor data in the descending order of man labor 
gives an excellent chance to compare crops from the standpoint of 
labor, but this table should be supplemented with the labor data by 
months as given throughout the bulletin. For assumed yields of 
the following crops see Table 2. 
Table 4. — Labor requirements for various crops on 1-acre basis. 
Crop. 
Section of state. 
Man 
days. 
Horse 
days. 
Does data 
include 
work of 
hauling to 
market? 
Cherries 
Northwest Arkansas 
do 
42.0 
34.0 
31.0 
30.0 
21.7 
16.0 
15.6 
14.3 
14.2 
13.5 
13.1 
12.6 
12.5 
12.0 
11.9 
11.7 
11.5 
11.1 
9.5 
9.4 
9.4 
7.7 
7.5 
7.3 
6.1 
5.5 
5.3 
5.3 
5.1 
4.8 
4.6 
3.8 
3.7 
3.6 
3.4* 
3.4 
3.35 
3.3 
3.1 
2.9 
2.4 
2.4 
2.1 
2.0 
1.8 
1.65 
1.6 
1.55 
1.4 
1.3 
1.0 
9.0 
5.0 
3. 
12.0 
7.6 
9.0 
11.8 
9.2 
8.2 
8.6 
8.2 
5.2 
7.6 
6.0 
5.2 
5.2 
9.5 
5.5 
5.5 
4.3 
6.3 
7.8 
7.3 
7.4 
4.6 
.->.o 
6.2 
5.0 
5.5 
6.3 
6.3 
6.7 
5.1 
4.1 
5.4 
4.7 
3.85 
5.0 
5.2 
4.2 
3.8 
2.4 
3.0 
3.5 
3.2 
3.4 
1.6 
2.9 
2.9 
1.5 
1.0 
Yes. 
Yes. 
Strawberries 
do 
Yes. 
Hempstead Countv 
Yes. 
(Jrapes 
Nort hwest Arkansas 
do 
Crawford County 
Yes. 
First-year strawberries 
No market- 
ing. 
Yes. 
Apples 
Northwest Arkansas 
Sebastian Countv 
Yes. 
Sorghum sirup ... . 
No. 
Yes. 1 
C'annerv tomatoes 
Northwest Arkansas 
Pike Countv 
Yes. 
Peaches 
Yes. 
Sweet potatoes 
Northwest Arkansas 
Sebastian County 
Yes. 
Pears 
Yes. 
Cotton 
Mississippi County 
( 2 ) 
Do * 
Chicot Countv 
( 2 ) 
Muskmelons 
Hempstead Countv 
(') 
Cotton 
Pulaski Countv. .." 
( 2 ) 
Do 
Crawford Countv 
( 2 ) 
Do 
Columbia Countv 
( 2 ) 
Sweet potatoes 
do 
Yes. 
Watermelons 
Hempstead County 
Yes. 
Do . 
Crawford County 
Yes. 
First-crop potatoes 
Sebastian Countv 
Yes. 
First-year blackberries 
Northwest Arkansas 
Sebastian Countv 
No market- 
Second-crop potatoes 
ing. 
No. 
do 
Yes. 
Miller Countv 
Yes. 
Corn, shocked and shucked 
Northwest Arkansas 
do 
No. 
Corn silage 
No. 
Rice 
Eastern Arkansas 
Yes. 
Pulaski County 
No. 
Corn 
do 
No. 
Alfalfa 
Mississippi County 
No. 
Corn 
do 
No. 
Do 
Chicot County 
No. 
Do 
Columbia County 
No. 
No. 
Corn 
Northwest Arkansas 
Pulaski Countv 
No. 
June corn 
No. 
First-vear timothy 
Northwest Arkansas 
Faulkner County 
(3) 
Bermuda hay 
( 3 ) 
No. 
Fall oats 
Pulaski County 
No. 
Cowpeahay 
No. 
Wheat after oats 
Northwest Arkansas 
do 
No. 
Red clover cut twice 
No. 
Spring oats 
...do 
No. 
Wheat after cowpeas 
Northeast Arkansas 
No. 
Lespedeza 
Southeast Arkansas 
No. 
Northwest Arkansas 
No. 
1 In Crawford County the work of packing the cantaloupes in the field is included but in Hempstead 
County the packing is done by contract in the association sheds, hence is not included in the figures. 
2 The work on cotton includes hauling to the gin and the crop may or may not be marketed on the same 
trip. 
8 The work of baling in the field is included. The data for other kinds of hay are for loose hay, stored 
in barn or stack. 
