STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 
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and bunching are of course entirely done away with when the loader 
is used. 
Table XXVIII. — Loading hay with cylinder and rake loaders (two men, besides 
driver of team). 
Loading from— 
Number 
of men. 
Number 
of reports. 
Minutes per load. 
Kind of loader. 
Average. 
Time most often 
reported. 
Cylinder 
Swath 
2 
2 
2 
17 
27 
80 
21.9 
22.0 
23.2 
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Do. 
Do 
Rake 
Swath 
/20 (27 reports). 
\30 (26 reports). 
Average, all reports 
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Fig. 11. — The hay loader reduces by about 25 per cent the time required to put on a 
load of hay. 
Most of the hay racks in use here are 7 feet wide and 14 feet long. 
However, a considerable number 8 feet wide and 14 feet long, and 
some 7 by 16 and 8 by 16 feet were reported. The variations in the 
size of rack were evidently not great enough to affect the size of 
load. 
UNLOADING HAY. 
The farmers were asked to give their experience in putting hay 
into the mow both by hand and with a hayfork. (See Tables XXIX 
and XXX.) 
UNLOADING BY HAND. 
In unloading by hand the most common practice is to have one 
man on the wagon and two in the mow, and on an average it takes 
41 minutes for this crew to unload a load of 1.2 tons. The table 
shows that it takes but very little longer for the 2-man crew, one 
man on the wagon and one in the mow, to put away a load. How- 
ever, a crew of this size is ordinarily used only in small barns, or 
