STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 
Table I. Summary of performance of implements, workmen, and crews in most 
common use in central Illinois — Continued. 
Implement or operation. 
Size. 
Horses. 
Men. 
Acres 
per day. 
Spike-tooth harrow 
Corn planter: 
Check rower 
Drill 
Corn cultivator: 
One-row riding 
Two-row riding 
Cutting and shocking corn by hand. 
Corn binder 
Shocking corn after corn binder 
Husking corn from standing stalks. . 
Mechanical picker 
Endgate seeder 
Grain drill 
Grain binder 
Shocking oats 
Mowing machine 
Tedder 
Sulky rake 
Unloading ear corn: 
With scoop shovel 
With portable elevator 
Unloading oats: 
With scoop shovel 
With portable elevator 
Loading hay: 
By hand 
With rake hay loader 
Unloading hay into mow: 
By hand 
With hay fork. 
Hauling and spreading manure: 
With spreader 
With wagon box 
20 feet. 
42 inches. 
....do.... 
.do. 
.do. 
35 feet. 
8 feet.. 
....do. 
5 feet.. 
10 feet. 
....do. 
42 bushels. 
do 
85 bushels. 
do 
1.2 tons. 
....do... 
65 bushels. 
44 bushels. 
40.6 
17.8 
20.0 
7.8 
13.5 
1.28 
7.66 
6.66 
1.67 
6-8 
52.1 
14.9 
17.9 
17.4 
10.4 
20.8 
20.8 
Minutes 
per load. 
28.1 
7.8 
25.6 
7.9 
31.4 
23.2 
41.0 
18.2 
45.6 
68.4 
GENERAL CONDITIONS. 
Most of the farms in the area covered by this study are level, the 
soil is free from stumps and stones, and the fields are regular in 
shape. This permits more efficient use of farm machinery, especially 
of the larger sizes, than is possible in some sections of the country. 
The average size of all the farms from which the reports were ob- 
tained is 199.5 acres. An average of 32.1 acres per farm is never 
planted to crops, thus leaving an average crop area of 167.4 acres per 
farm. The land not planted to crops consists usually of the farm- 
stead, roads, lanes, and possibly a small permanent pasture and wood 
lot. Corn is the principal crop, at least one-half of the crop area 
being devoted to the growing of this cereal. The oat crop is next 
in importance. Hay, mostly clover and timothy, and pasture in 
rotation, together occupy approximately the same acreage as oats. 
The most common rotation is (1) corn, (2) corn, (3) oats and (4) 
clover, or clover and timothy. 
The average weight of the horses found on these farms is 1,355 
pounds. On nearly two-thirds of the farms the horses weigh from 
1,300 to 1,400 pounds, only a small percentage weighing less than 
1,100 or over 1,500. These horses are considerably heavier than those 
