. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 757. Four-row potato sprayer. begun. A four-horse elevator digger is used. In 1906, the crop on eighteen acres was dug and picked up in six and one-half actual days, the total crop being 7,510 bushels, or 417 bushels to the acre. (Fourteen years previous, when Mr. Martin took the farm, the average yield was sixty bushels per acre. A good part of the above crop wa? hauled directly to the station and sold at foity cents ; 136 only were sold as low as thiity-eight cents). The heav- iest day's work in the harvesting in 1906 was a
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 757. Four-row potato sprayer. begun. A four-horse elevator digger is used. In 1906, the crop on eighteen acres was dug and picked up in six and one-half actual days, the total crop being 7,510 bushels, or 417 bushels to the acre. (Fourteen years previous, when Mr. Martin took the farm, the average yield was sixty bushels per acre. A good part of the above crop wa? hauled directly to the station and sold at foity cents ; 136 only were sold as low as thiity-eight cents). The heav- iest day's work in the harvesting in 1906 was as follows : Twenty-one helpers, little and big; three and three-fourths acres dug and picked up ; three two-horse rigs drew seventeen loads to cars one mile distant, comprising 1,011 crates; digging teams drew 283 crates on trucks to the barn ; at six o'clock there were left on wagons and in the field 207 crates; total 1,.501 crates. A break-down in the digger caused delay of one hour and loss in handling of 200 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954, ed. New York, The Macmillan company
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