Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . Figs. 47 and 48.—No othor staple crop in the United States requires so much handlabor as does cotton. Next to picking, chopping- out—that is, thinning the plants toa certain distance apart in the row—is the most laborious process in the productionof cotton. This operation begins usually about a month after planting, or about May1 m the southern portion of the cotton belt and May 21 along the northern margin,and ends four or five weeks later. Chopping out is done entirely by hand and requiresin general from 13 to 25 hours
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . Figs. 47 and 48.—No othor staple crop in the United States requires so much handlabor as does cotton. Next to picking, chopping- out—that is, thinning the plants toa certain distance apart in the row—is the most laborious process in the productionof cotton. This operation begins usually about a month after planting, or about May1 m the southern portion of the cotton belt and May 21 along the northern margin,and ends four or five weeks later. Chopping out is done entirely by hand and requiresin general from 13 to 25 hours of labor per acre in the eastern portion of the, cottonbelt, 18 hours being, perhaps, a fair average. In the Texas Black Waxy Prairie thereports indicate that only about 11 hours are required, on the average, for choppingout an acre of cotton. Seasonal Work on Farm Crops. 39. Figs 49 and 50—Tho picking of cotton l)e?ins the southern margin of thocotton belt from South Central Texas eastward about August 11. By Aupst LI mthe noi-mal year picking has begun in the Black Prairie of Texas, in central throughout the Coastal Plain of G(>orgia. and by September 11 it has begun alongthe northern margin of the cotton belt. Picking continues throughout the fall, notbeing finished usually until December. The corner map shOAying the dates when picK-ing f^nds is highly generalized, for on different farms in the same county the end orpicking may be any time within a period of three months. In general, it is tigureathat a negro hand can pick 150 pounds of lint cotton in a day. so that the amountof time yaries with the yield from 30 to 100 hours per acre. The ayerage time n^fjuired to pick an acre of cotton east of Texas is 50 hours, a greater amount of manlabor than is required to produce 3 acres of corn in Illinois or 4 acres of wheat
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