STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 
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The most common unit for plowing* in the western New York area 
is the 2-horse walking plow, and with it one man covers only about 
one-third as much ground per day as does one man with the 5-horse 
gang in central Illinois. Even with the 3-horse sulky, which is in 
use in both sections, the average accomplishment of these Illinois 
farmers exceeds that of those of the New York area by over 30 per 
cent. Part of this difference is doubtless due to the easier plowing 
conditions in Illinois, as mentioned above. 
There is a greater difference between the acres covered per day by 
one man with the spike-tooth harrow in the two areas than with any 
other implement shown in the table, one man in central Illinois ac- 
complishing over three times as much as one man in western New 
York. 
OPERATIONS ON THE CORN CROP. 
Table XXXIII shows in comparison the rates of doing work on 
the corn crop with the implements and crews in most common use 
in the two areas. The figures for planting apply to corn in rows 
42 inches apart. In western New York corn is generally planted with 
the grain drill, this implement planting two rows at a time, covering 
about the same acreage per day as the two-row planter. The Illinois 
men use' the planter exclusively for both checkrowing and drilling, 
and in drilling cover nearly twice as much per day as do the New 
Yorkers who drill with grain drills. 
Table XXXIII. — Operations on the corn crop. 
McLean County, 111. 
Western New York . 
Implement or operation. 
Most 
common 
size. 
Number 
of 
horses. 
Acres 
per 
day. 
Most 
common 
size. 
Number 
of 
horses. 
Acres 
per 
day. 
Grain drill '. 
2-row 
...do 
2 
2 
11.60 
2-row 
do.... 
2 
2 
20.00 
17.80 
10. 7 
Walking cultivator 
1 
2 
4.10 
1-row 
2-row 
2 
3 
7.80 
13.80 
1.28 
7.66 
2.97 
1.67 
1-row 
7.10 
Do 
Cutting corn by hand 
1.12 
Cutting corn- with binder 
3 
3 
5.70 
Shocking corn after binder 
3.35 
Husking corn from standing stalks 
2 
Husking corn from shock 
.46 
About a third of the reports from western New York stated that 
the corn was planted in rows 36 inches apart, the remainder being 
planted in rows 42 inches apart. The figures given in the table for 
western New York for the operations other than planting are aver- 
ages of both sets of reports. The figures for the Illinois area are 
averages of the performance in corn where the rows are 40 and 42 
inches apart. 
On only one operation, that of shocking corn after the binder, do 
the western New York farmers accomplish more per man than do 
those in the Illinois area. 
