. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 27 and bimcliing are of course entirely done away witli when the loader is used. Table XXVIII.—Loading hay loith cylinder and rake loaders {two men, besides driver of team). Loading from— Number of men. Number of reports. Minutes per load. Kind of loader. Average. Time often reported. Cylinder Swath 2 2 2 17 27 80 Scattering. Do Do Swath /20 {27 reports). \iQ {26 reports). Average, all reports Fig. 11.—The hay loader reduces by about 25 per cen
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. STANDARD DAY S WORK IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS. 27 and bimcliing are of course entirely done away witli when the loader is used. Table XXVIII.—Loading hay loith cylinder and rake loaders {two men, besides driver of team). Loading from— Number of men. Number of reports. Minutes per load. Kind of loader. Average. Time often reported. Cylinder Swath 2 2 2 17 27 80 Scattering. Do Do Swath /20 {27 reports). \iQ {26 reports). Average, all reports Fig. 11.—The hay loader reduces by about 25 per cent tht- time tu put on a load of hay. Most of the hay racks in use here are 7 feet wide and 14 feet long. However, a considerable number 8 feet wide and 14 feet long, and some 7 by 16 and 8 by 16 feet were reported. The variations in the size of rack were evidently not great enough to affect the size of load. UNLOADING HAY. The farmers were asked to give their experience in putting hay into the mow both bv hand and with a hayfork. (See Tables XXIX and XXX.) UNLOADING BY HAND. In unloading by hand the most common practice is to have one man on the wagon and two in the mow, and on an average it takes 41 minutes for this crew to unload a load of tons. The table shows that it takes but very little longer for the 2-man crew, one man on the wagon and one in the mow, to put away a load. How- ever, a crew of this size is ordinarily used only in small barns, or. 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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