STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 
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ing conditions. Table XIV gives a summary of these estimates. 
Nearly all corn cut for fodder is put into shocks, either 12, 14, or 16 
hills square, over two-thirds of the reports stating that it was the 
common practice to make shocks containing 196 hills (14 by 14). 
The most common performance reported when making shocks of this 
size was 20 shocks per day, but nearly as many men reported 25 and 
30 shocks, practically three-fourths of the reports giving one or 
another of these three figures. (See fig. 5.) 
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Fig. 6. — Where conditions are favorable, the corn binder increases the efficiency of 
man labor 50 per cent. 
Table XIV. — Cutting and shocking corn by hand (one man). 
Number 
of reports. 
Size of shocks. 
Acres 
covered 
per day. 
292 
141, 196, and 256 hills 
1.28 
Yields of from 40 to 65 bushels were reported, but the variations 
in yield apparently were not great enough to affect the ground covered 
per day. 
THE CORN BINDER. 
An average day's work for corn binders drawn by two, three, and 
four horses is given in Table XV. (See fig. 6.) A majority of the 
binders were drawn by three horses, this unit doing on an average 
about 10 per cent more per day than the 2 -horse unit. More than 
