. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 28 BULLETIN 760, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. In the Los Angeles area this period extended from July 20 to De- cember 1, in the Oxnard district from July 15 to November 10, and on Salinas farms from September 1 to November 25. (Table XVIII.) Table 'XXTll.—Lifting. District. Number of records. Per cent of total records. Acres in beets per farm. Hours of labor per acre. Labor cost per Total. Lifted. Man. Horse. acre. Los Angeles 66 37 39 81 82 100 $
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 28 BULLETIN 760, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. In the Los Angeles area this period extended from July 20 to De- cember 1, in the Oxnard district from July 15 to November 10, and on Salinas farms from September 1 to November 25. (Table XVIII.) Table 'XXTll.—Lifting. District. Number of records. Per cent of total records. Acres in beets per farm. Hours of labor per acre. Labor cost per Total. Lifted. Man. Horse. acre. Los Angeles 66 37 39 81 82 100 $ Oxnard Salinas Fig. 15.—Harvestins sugar beets with a crotcb lifter that is operated by a crew of one man and four horses. There are two general types of implement used in doing this work, viz, the crotch lifter and the side lifter. (See fig. 15.) The crotch lifter has double prongs which run on both sides of the row, while the side lifter has single points on the ends of long, thin, cutting blades, the most common size being the one-row implement with but one point. This is called a " side lifter " because the point runs at the side of the row. The crotch type lifts only one row, while side lifters are made to lift from one to four rows at a time. Side lifters are universally used when tractor power is employed. (See fig. 16.) The size of the lifter used depends on the horsepower of the tractor. Both side and crotch lifters were used in the Los Angeles district. On Salinas farms crotch lifters were used exclusively, while on farms in the Oxnard district the side lifter was the universal 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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