Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . tton planting is general during the month of April. It end^usually by May 21. Records from nine localities in Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi,Louisiana, and Arkansas show a requirement of 12 to 16 hours of man labor and 13to 26 (average 20> hours of mule labor to prepare an acre of land for cotton, 2 hoursman lalx)r and also of horse labor to plant an acre, 15 to 22 (average 17) hours laborboth man and horse to harrow and cultivate, 13 to 30 (average IS) hours man laboronly to chop and hoe, and from 45 to 90 hours of ma
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . tton planting is general during the month of April. It end^usually by May 21. Records from nine localities in Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi,Louisiana, and Arkansas show a requirement of 12 to 16 hours of man labor and 13to 26 (average 20> hours of mule labor to prepare an acre of land for cotton, 2 hoursman lalx)r and also of horse labor to plant an acre, 15 to 22 (average 17) hours laborboth man and horse to harrow and cultivate, 13 to 30 (average IS) hours man laboronly to chop and hoe, and from 45 to 90 hours of man labor per acre to pick the addition, an average of 4 hours of man labor and 8 hours of mule labor per acreare required to haul the crop to ihe gin and market. The amount of labor re« with the method of handling the crop, the character of the soil, and otherfactors, but in general the production of cotton east of Texas and Oklahoma requiresfrom 100 to 140 hours of man labor and from 45 to 60 hours of mule labor per aci-e. 38 Seedtime and 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
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