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BUXLETIX 814, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XXVII. — Loading hay by hand (one man on load). 
Number of 
men to 
pitch. 
Number of 
reports. 
Minutes per load. 
Average. 
Time most often 
reported. 
1 
2 
4S 
348 
42.2 
31.4 
Scattering. 
30 (i 50 reports). 
HAY LOADER. 
Table XXVIII gives the time required for two men besides the 
driver of the team to put on a load with the cylinder hay loader 
Fig. 10. — In loading hay by hand the 3-rnan crew is most often used. 
from the swath and from the windrow, and with the rake loader 
ifrom the swath. More than twice as many men reported using rake 
loaders than those using cylinder loaders. Some reported the use of 
only one man on the load, but there were not enough of these to 
justify comparison between this practice and the using of two men. 
The table shows that, as far as time is concerned, there is very little 
difference between the efficiency of these two loaders. The average 
size of load put on with the loaders is 1.3 tons, nearly the same as 
that put on when the work is done by hand. 
As compared with loading by hand, three men with a loader — 
two besides the driver of the team — put on a load in about 25 per 
cent less time than do three men by hand. There is the added ad- 
vantage that the services of some one who can not do a full man's 
work with the pitchfork can be utilized for driving the team. If 
the hay is loaded directly from the swath the operations of raking 
