3 2 
Colorado Experiment Station. 
Drilling, which was performed every year of the period, gave 
an average money cost of 56 cents per acre. 
TABLE No. 57. 
LABOR COST PER ACRE-DRILLING. 
Average 1910-1913, inclusive. 
Average Man Hours 
1 ' 
Average Horse Hours 
Average Cost 
Horse and Man Labor 
1.04 
1 
1 
1 
2.82 
$0.56 
Irrigating, which is almost exclusively a man labor job, horse 
labor appearing only in the ditching work in held head ditches and 
laterals, gave a total labor cost of $1.08. 
TABLE No. 57. 
AVERAGE LABOR COST PER ACRE—IRRIGATING. 
Average 1910-1913, inclusive. 
Average Man Hours 
1 
1 
Average Horse Hours 
Average Cost 
Horse and Man Labor 
5.36 
1 
1 
1 
0.06 
$1.08 
The average cost of miscellaneous labor applied per acre was 
33 cents. This heading covers those work items not readily classi¬ 
fiable in the regular held operations, such as repairing flood dam¬ 
age, cleaning out patches of undesirable weeds, and other similar 
unusual operations. 
TABLE No. 58. 
AVERAGE MISCELLANEOUS LABOR COST PER ACRE. 
Average 1910-1913, inclusive. 
Average Man Hours 
1 
1 
Average Horse Hours 
Average Cost 
Horse and Man Labor 
1.07 
1 
1 
1 
0.95 
$0.33 
The average harvesting labor cost amounted to $5.31 for the 
four-year period. 
TABLE No. 59. 
AVERAGE COST PER ACRE—HARVESTING. 
Average 1910-1913. 
Average Man Hours 
Average Horse Hours 
Average Cost 
Horse and Man Labor 
17.16 
1 
15.03 
1 
$5.31 
