An economic study of farm layout .. economicstudyoff00myer Year: 1920 An Economic Study of Farm Layout 425 . steadily diminishing length of fiu-rows in field C worried the horses more than did the short fm-rows of the same average length in field B. TABLE 10. Relation of Shape op Fields to Time Required to Plow an Acre Field Size of field (square feet) Time required to plow field Timp required to plow one acre at same rate A 28,141 28,141 17,976 218 min. 248 min. 170 min. B C Any irregular shape for a farm field is undesirable. The larger the proportion of the area of a field in short rows,
An economic study of farm layout .. economicstudyoff00myer Year: 1920 An Economic Study of Farm Layout 425 . steadily diminishing length of fiu-rows in field C worried the horses more than did the short fm-rows of the same average length in field B. TABLE 10. Relation of Shape op Fields to Time Required to Plow an Acre Field Size of field (square feet) Time required to plow field Timp required to plow one acre at same rate A 28,141 28,141 17,976 218 min. 248 min. 170 min. B C Any irregular shape for a farm field is undesirable. The larger the proportion of the area of a field in short rows, the worse is the shape of the field and the greater is the amount of labor wasted in farming it (fig. 87). Fig. 87. small, irregular fields, which waste labor and land and are expensive to fence Triangular fields have the largest proportion of short rows and are the most wasteful of labor. Square fields are bad if they are small, because with mowing or other operations that require going around the field the bouts become extremely short near the finish; if they are large enough to be cut in two for these operations, however, they are satisfactory. For
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