Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . Figs. 18 and 19.—The seeding of spring wheat bocomes general in southern SouthDakota usually about April 1 and in northern North Dakota about April 21, or some10 davs afterthe beginning date. In the Bic Bend and Palouse districts of easternWashington seeding is general during the first half of April. The usual duration of theperiod from bfginning to end of seeding is about 20 days in Nebraska, where the acre-age is small. 30 davs in northern South Dakota, and 35 days in northern North eastern Washington it is 3
Seedtime and harvest : a graphic summary of seasonal work on farm crops . Figs. 18 and 19.—The seeding of spring wheat bocomes general in southern SouthDakota usually about April 1 and in northern North Dakota about April 21, or some10 davs afterthe beginning date. In the Bic Bend and Palouse districts of easternWashington seeding is general during the first half of April. The usual duration of theperiod from bfginning to end of seeding is about 20 days in Nebraska, where the acre-age is small. 30 davs in northern South Dakota, and 35 days in northern North eastern Washington it is 30 to 40 davs. In the Dakotas and Montana seeding wheatrequires on the average a half hour of man labor per acre and two hours of horse amount of land that can be seeded is dependent not only upon the supply of laborand efficient use of machinery in fall plowing, and in the plowing and seeding after theland thaws out in the spring, but also upon weather conditions during both theseperiods. 20 Seedtime and Fig. 20.—The harvest of spring wheat begins in, eastern Nebraslia and westernIowa usually about July 15, or at the time winter wheat harvest ends. By August 1wheat harvest has usually begun throughout practically all of South Dakota and south-ern Minnesota and by August 11 it has nearly reached the Canadian line. In easternWashington and Oregon spring wheat harvest begins usually about July 15 in thewarmer river valleys, but not until August 10 on the higher, cool plateaus. Thetransient labor supply for the harvest in Minnesota and the Dakotas, estimated at30,000 to 40,000 men, comes mostly from States to the south where it has been em-ployed in harvesting winter wheat, and from the logging camps in the Great Lakeregion. In Washington and Oregon the local supply is depended on, supplemented bylaborers from the logging camps and mines. Seasonal Work on Farm Crops. 21
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