Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-03-28

the top of the tree. where there wasn't
room for anyone else.
The Maine paper from which learn
the story of her exploit gives some de-
tails. Not as many as the really in |
curing agriculturist would like, but
quite a few.
"She hired her little plot. plowed and |
narrowed, then she did all the rest"
She made q charge of fifteen cents an
hour for her own labor" We are not
told whether she bought her manure
and fertilizer, or whether her seeds
were given her or not. We must as
sumo that she used some fertilizer and
sowed some seeds, but we can't figure
on them because of the lack of infor-.
nation about them. But she hired il
plowed and narrowed" and the rest of
the work she did herself, at fifteeE
cents an hour, the total expense for
blowing. narrowing and her own labor
coming to $2.66. If she paid for plow-
ing and narrowing the usual rate per
acre charged about here, this work
would have cost her exactly two and
! two fifths cents. As. she would have
found extreme difficulty in making the
correct change for that amount, we
will assume that she threw in the part
cent and paid three full cents down.
This, then, would leave a charge of
$3.50 for her own labor which, at f1f-
teen cents an hour, would seem to i'm
ply that she put in" about seventeen
and half hours work on her rod
square.
Carrying this ratio up. proportion
ately, to full acre, it comes to $50
ten hour days for each and every acre
worked. AS there are just about 140
days available in our northern lati-
tudes for crop making, this would re-
! quire the constant daily work OF two
persons on every acre farmed, includ-
| ing rainy days and Sundays, but not
| including the getting out manure the
! blowing and the narrowing. This would
! BE intensive cultivation indeed. But
! where would the help come from?
! Who're would the GARNER who wanted
! 10 farm ten acres this way so TO get
| lie twenty mon essential for the work?
! IL my vicinity a considerable percent
| age OF ,he farmers are giving up all
! q icu p', this coming season, to do any
! more farming than they can do with
| their oWn ha nd. because of the actual
4, iml5s- 1iity Of obtaining even three
| or four men.
! Assuming ti1at The farmer did this,
! D4ttiGE IA seventeen and a half hOU $
| OF his ,..En work o. each square rod of
! pirWcd ground. he would be able to
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