. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. \ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULLETIN No. 1000 â ^4* v3E2»?^*fcV' Contribution from the Office of Farm Management and Farm "Vii. W tisr^ytMtfP Economics. »%| J&$"'iFZru G. W. FORSTER, Acting Chief. J^^^ Washington, D. C. December 30, 1921 LABOR AND MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS OF FIELD CROPS. By L. A. Moorhouse, Associate Farm Economist, and O. A. Juve, Junior Farm Economist. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 Method of presentation 4 Corn 5 Corn silage 8 Cotton 11 Potatoes 15 Sugar beets 19 Tobac
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. \ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULLETIN No. 1000 â ^4* v3E2»?^*fcV' Contribution from the Office of Farm Management and Farm "Vii. W tisr^ytMtfP Economics. »%| J&$"'iFZru G. W. FORSTER, Acting Chief. J^^^ Washington, D. C. December 30, 1921 LABOR AND MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS OF FIELD CROPS. By L. A. Moorhouse, Associate Farm Economist, and O. A. Juve, Junior Farm Economist. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 Method of presentation 4 Corn 5 Corn silage 8 Cotton 11 Potatoes 15 Sugar beets 19 Tobacco 22 Beans 25 Grain sorghums 28 Wheat, spring and winter 29 Oats 33 Barley 36 Rye 38 Hay 40 Grass seed crops 45 Apples 46 Miscellaneous crops 49 Method of using foregoing data 51 Value of plow lands 53 Labor distribution among farm 54 INTRODUCTION. There is a growing demand for information relating to the quantities of labor and materials required for agricultural production, especially with reference to the staple farm crops and the leading classes of live stock. In the cost of production studies which have been con- ducted by the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, particular emphasis has been laid on the quantity requirements of labor and materialsâ hours of man labor, hours of horse labor, hours of tractor labor, pounds or bushels of seed, loads of manure, pounds of fertilizer, and quantities of other materials that are utilized in producing crops or live stock. When these items are known, it is easy to compute costs at any given time by applying the prevailing rate for each item. This method makes it possible to determine approximate costs for any period, irrespective of changes in material and labor rates. As a rule, field practice does not change greatly from year to year, and the hours of man labor and the quantities of material necessary in the production of a given crop or a given class of live st
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