STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 
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man is about 80 per cent greater than if they were cutting and shock- 
ing by hand. That more corn binders are not in use in this section is 
due to the fact that these machines are expensive, and the compara- 
tively small amount of work for them to do, often less than a day 
per year, in a great many cases increases the cost per acre cut enough 
to offset this gain in efficiency of man labor. 
HUSKING CORN. 
Most of the corn grown in this section is husked from the standing 
stalk by extra help, which is paid at a fixed price per bushel. (See 
fig. 7.) The most common practice is to provide each workman with 
Fig. 7. — Most of the corn grown in McClean County is husked from the standing stalk. 
a wagon and team. Each man husks two loads of varying size per 
day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and hauls them to 
the crib and unloads them. 
Table XVII. — Husking corn from standing stalks (1 man and team). 
Yield per acre. 
Number 
of reports. 
A day's work. 
Group limits. 
Average. 
Average. 
Number bushels 
most often reported. 
Bushels. 
42.6 
50.2 
60.2 
121 
370 
38 
Bushels. 
78.2 
81.8 
87.1 
Acres. 
1.84 
1.63 
1.45 
80 U7 reports). 
80 (150 reports). 
Scattering. 
Average of total, all reports 
49.2 
529 
81.3 
1.67 
