STANDARD DAY'S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 13 
Table XTI. — Cultivating corn with 1-roio, 2-lwrse riding cultivator. 
Width of 
row. 
Number of 
reports. 
Acres per day. 
Average. 
Acreage most often 
reported. 
Inches. 
40 
42 
244 
2C4 
7.9 
7.8 
H (48 reports). 
\8 {119 reports). 
ft (61 reports). 
\8 {112 reports). 
It is usually not possible to make as good progress in the first cul- 
tivation as it is when the corn is larger, and sometimes difficulty is 
Fig. 4. — The 2-row cultivator covers on an average 13.5 acres per day, one and three- 
fourths times as much as the |-row cultivator. 
experienced in going crosswise in checked rows. However, no at- 
tempt was made to obtain figures applicable to these different condi- 
tions, the farmers simply being asked to give their estimates of an 
average day's work in cultivating corn. 
Table XIII. — Cultivating corn with two-rota cultivator. 
Width of 
rom. 
Number of 
horses. 
Number of 
reports. 
Acres per day. 
Average. 
Acreage most often 
reported. 
Inches. 
40 
40 
42 
42 
3 
4 
3 
4 
90 
20 
81 
11 
14.0 
14.2 
13.5 
15.1 
/14 (// reports). 
\15 (31 reports). 
Scattering. 
/14 (14 reports). 
\15 (19 reports). 
Scattering. 
