. Bulletin. COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING IN WEST VIRGINIA. 13 sleeping quarters. Under such conditions young men from schools and colleges find congenial employment, as well as the sons of respect- able citizens in the community. HORSE LABOR. A man with one horse to plow or cultivate is generally paid $2 to $ per day. A man with two horses may receive $ to $ per day. Frequently a man with a team is employed by the hour, when he may receive in some sections 30 cents per hour for a 2-horse team or 50 cents per hour for a 4-horse team. From an accurate record on one farm it cost for the enti
. Bulletin. COMMERCIAL ORCHARDING IN WEST VIRGINIA. 13 sleeping quarters. Under such conditions young men from schools and colleges find congenial employment, as well as the sons of respect- able citizens in the community. HORSE LABOR. A man with one horse to plow or cultivate is generally paid $2 to $ per day. A man with two horses may receive $ to $ per day. Frequently a man with a team is employed by the hour, when he may receive in some sections 30 cents per hour for a 2-horse team or 50 cents per hour for a 4-horse team. From an accurate record on one farm it cost for the entire year an average of $13 per month to care for and feed one mule. This did not include the fre- quent pasturing of the mule on Sundays. Another orchardist found that the cost of keeping a horse during the year was about $15 per month. The variation is $8 to $15 per month, de- pending largely on the price of feed, which during the past 10 years has varied from $12 to $35 per ton for hay and 50 cents to $1 per bushel for corn. It has been a common practice in this section to sell the mules and horses in the fall when the culti- vating season is over and to buy again in the spring when the growing season begins. Not all, however, regard this practice as satisfactory. There is a loss of 10 to 20 per cent in buying and selling in this manner. Figure 4 shows in graphic form the number of hours of man labor employed on a 400-acre peach orchard during the year 1911. Most of the labor represents work done with teams, and shows quite accu- rately the relative amount of time 16 mules were UAM ^£ AfV?./*7AYUlS/V£-Lj</£y ACS. SettOCT. A/OK 0£C. Fig. 4.—Chart showing the number of man hours of labor performed during each month of the year 1911 on a 400-acre peach orchard. This is approximately the amount of time that 20 mules—the proper number for such an orchard—could be used during the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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