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BULLETIN 814, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
It will be seen (Table XIII) that a majority of the farmers using 
the 2-row cultivator hitch three horses to it. It is of comparatively 
light draft, and the addition of a fourth horse apparently increases 
but little the ground covered per day. 
TYTiile the 2-row machine theoretically should cover twice as much 
ground per day as the 1-row, in practice it covers on the average only 
about one and three-quarters times as much. This comparatively 
lower rate of work is probably due to the greater difficulty expe- 
rienced by the operator in handling the larger machine and the 
larger team. 
Fig. 5. — One man cuts and shocks by hand about 1.25 acres of corn per day. 
About 65 per cent of the reports showed either 7 or 8 acres as an 
average day's work with the 1-row cultivator. About 55 per cent 
gave from 14: to 16 acres as a day's work for the 2-row implement, 
but only 6 per cent of them gave more than 16 acres. 
CUTTING CORN. 
The amount of live stock kept on these farms is small as compared 
to the amount of corn raised, and only a small part of the corn is cut 
either for fodder or ensilage, the remainder being husked from the 
standing stalks. Thus the work of cutting corn is not so well stand- 
ardized as are some of the more important farm operations, and most 
of it is done by hand. Only about one-third of the farmers reported 
the use of corn binders. 
CUTTING AND SHOCKING BY HAND. 
Each of the farmers was asked to give his estimate of the amount 
of corn one man should cut and shock by hand in a day under vary- 
