A Normal Day's Work for Various Farm Operations

H. H. Mowry

No 366864, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Excerpt from pp. 90-91 of Vol. XXX, January-June, 1914, of the Experiment Station Record: Notes and data based in part on personal observations and in part on replies to a circular of inquiry sent to 25,000 selected farmers as to the average or normal day's work for various farm operations are presented. Tables are given illustrating a normal day's work in using walking, sulky, and gang plows; plowing stubble and sod with a traction engine; using spike-tooth, spring-tooth, and disk harrows, a land roller, a grain drill, a broadcast seeder, knapsack sower, and wheelbarrow sower; in planting cotton, corn, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, cabbage, and tomatoes; cutting potatoes for seed and covering same after planting; making rows for planting; hauling and spreading manure with a spreader and by hand and dumping manure in piles; cultivating corn, potatoes, beans, cabbage, and cotton; spraying an orchard; mowing, raking, tedding, and cocking hay; harvesting hay and corn with and without a binder; husking corn; digging potatoes; threshing grain; hauling to market with wagon; together with a number of other farm operations, giving the average work factors in terms of designated units per man, per horse, per hour, per day, etc.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Research Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50
Date: 1913-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.366864

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