. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 18 BULLETIlsT 814, U. S, DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTUKE. Table XVII gives the daily duty of one man when husking from the standing stalk, with corn of different yields. The average of 529 reports on this operation shows bushels, or acres, as a day's work. The number of bushels husked per day increases with the yield, but not in proportion to it. One man husks on an average 9 bushels more per day in corn yielding 60 bushels per acre than in corn yielding under 45 bushels, but covers four-tenths of an acre less grou
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 18 BULLETIlsT 814, U. S, DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTUKE. Table XVII gives the daily duty of one man when husking from the standing stalk, with corn of different yields. The average of 529 reports on this operation shows bushels, or acres, as a day's work. The number of bushels husked per day increases with the yield, but not in proportion to it. One man husks on an average 9 bushels more per day in corn yielding 60 bushels per acre than in corn yielding under 45 bushels, but covers four-tenths of an acre less ground. The individual estimates range from 50 to 100 bushels, but over 200 of the 529 men reporting gave 80 bushels as an average day's work. ^. Fig. 8.—The meclianical picker increases the efficiency of man labor about 35 per cent, as compared with hand husking, but decreases slightly the efficiency of horse labor. In this locality a bushel of ear corn is understood to consist of enough ears to make a bushel of shelled corn, the volume of a bushel of ear corn being approximately twice that of a bushel of shelled corn. About one-tenth of the men reported the use of mechanical pickers for husking corn from the standing stalk. (See fig. 8.) Five or six horses are used to draw the machine, and,from one to four men and teams were employed in hauling the corn from the field to the crib. The number of men and teams used for hauling the corn de- pends to a large extent upon the distance from the field to the crib and whether or not a portable elevator is used for unloading. Their crews are usually so arranged that the amount of corn husked and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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