Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . Fig. 30.—The harvest of spring oats begins along the Gulf Coast usually about May21 and progresses northward up the Missi^sippj Valley at the average rate of IJ miltsa day until about August 11 it crosses the boundary into Canada. Along the Atlanticand Pacific coasts the rate is somewhat less rapid. In central Illinois, central Iowa, andeastern Nebraska, in which States nearly one-third of the total oat acreage of the UnitedStates is found, the harvest usually begins about July 11. In east central Illinois hours
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . Fig. 30.—The harvest of spring oats begins along the Gulf Coast usually about May21 and progresses northward up the Missi^sippj Valley at the average rate of IJ miltsa day until about August 11 it crosses the boundary into Canada. Along the Atlanticand Pacific coasts the rate is somewhat less rapid. In central Illinois, central Iowa, andeastern Nebraska, in which States nearly one-third of the total oat acreage of the UnitedStates is found, the harvest usually begins about July 11. In east central Illinois hours man labor and .S to 4 hours of horse labor are required to cut and shock anacre of oats. In North Dakota the labor required for harvesting averages 2 hours ofman labor and 4 hours of horse labor per acre, while in western New York the corre-sponding figures are hours of man labor and hours of horse labor per acre. c Seasonal Work on Farm Crops. 27. Figs 31 and 32.—The harvesi- of spring oats is eenerrJ along the Gulf Coast usuallyabout June 11. but it is July 1-11 bf^forn the harvest is general in eastern Kansas, thi>lower Ohio and the Potomac valleys. This is about the time wheat harvest ends. Bvmid-July oat harvest is general in central Iowa, central Illinois, and southern Ohio, andby mid-August in western Washington, North Dakota, and New York. Oat harvest lat^r in the eastern States than at the same latitude and altitude in thecentral and far West. In Minnesota, the Dakotas. and eastern Washington oat harvestseriously overlaps upon that of !<pring wheat. The total amount of labor required toproduce an acre of .spring oats, including thrashing, averages about 10 hours of manlabor and LO hours of labor in east central Illinois. 8 hours of man labor and 20hours of horse labor in North Dakota, 20 hours of man labor and 25 hours of horselabor in western New York. 28 Seedtime and Harvest.
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