COSTS AND FARM PRACTICES IX PRODUCING POTATOES. 
17 
these tables is practically the average crew for the region, though its 
rate of work is not necessarily exactly the average rate per day, 
which is based on the average instead of on the most common crew. 
Table 12. — Cultural practices on 51 farms in Clay County, Minn. — Potatoes, 1919. 
Operation. 
Manure 
Plow: 
Horses 
Tractor i 
Harrow: 
Spike 
Spring 
Disk 
Rolling 
Sprouting seed 
Treating seed 
Cutting seed 
Plant (planter) 
Cultivating: 
lrow.2-horse... 
2-row,3-horse... 
2row,4-horse... 
Spike tooth 
Weeder 
Hoeing 
Spraying 
Dusting 
Dusting by hand . . . 
Digging 
Picking up 
Sorting and grading 
Hauling: 
To barn 
To market 
Farms. 
X um- 
ber. 
Per- 
cent- 
age 
of 
total 
sO 
41 
2 
14 
25 
100 
100 
78 
4 
20 
69 
61 
4 
55 
43 
4 
100 
100 
53 
100 
100 
Acres. 
Covered. 
Per- 
cent- 
age 
of 
total 
835 
2.098 
2,005 
429 
668 
35 
313 
779 
2,558 
2,558 
1,426 
118 
1,099 
1,610 
1,870 
46 
1.037 
1,241 
- 30 
2, 524 
2.524 
2 106; 359 
2 70.341 
2 229, 144 
33 
82 
19 
78 
17 
26 
1 
12 
30 
100 
100 
56 
5 
43 
63 
73 
2 
41 
49 
1 
100 
100 
41 
27 
88 
Most 
com- 
mon 
crew. 
1-4 
1-5 
1 
1-4 
1-4 
1-4 
1 
1 
1 
1-4(26) 
1-2(25) 
1-3 
1-4 
1-4 
1-2 
1 
1-2 
1-1 
1-4 
1 
3 
1-2 
1-2 
Rate per 
day (once 
over). 
18.8 tons... 
4. 7 acres... 
11.4 acres. . 
38. 8 acres.. 
15. 5 acres.. 
13.2 acres.. 
20 acres.... 
310 bushels 
168 bushels 
30 bushels 
6.4 acres.. 
5.8 acres.. 
10 acres... 
10.3 acres. 
38. 9 acres. 
21. 2 acres. 
4 acres 
27.2 acres. 
32.5 acres. 
8 acres.... 
5 acres — 
1.1 acres.. 
390 acres.. 
Times 
over. 
1 
1 
1.7 
1.8 
1.4 
1 
1.4 
1 
396 acres. 
279 acres. 
4.1 
4.0 
4.1 
1.6 
2.0 
1 
1.7 
1.8 
1.5 
1 
1 
1 
Hours per 
acres. 
Man. 
10.3 
2.3 
1.1 
. 5 
1.1 
1.5 
.5 
.8 
1.0 
3.9 
1.7 
7.4 
4.0 
4.4 
.4 
1.0 
3.3 
1.8 
2.0 
11.8 
8.2 
4.3 
5.9 
Horse. 
34 4 
6.1 
2.0 
14.S 
12.0 
17.5 
1.7 
2.0 
1.4 
.8 
8.2 
8.6 
12.9 
28 acres plowed in the fall with tractor, and again in the spring with a 1-5 crew. 
56856°— 24 3 
2 Bushels. 
