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AGRIOULTURAL LABOR 461 were actually required for ?he work, bu? I have calculated ?he results per man as described above. In ?his case we have: .? (1) Ransomo's O. T. I. Plough mt Gadsg (8 hours-day work of one mau),, 0.72 aoros. (2) Similmr plough in Am?riat 1 (8 hours-dray work of one man) -- 1.08 acres. This would indicate tha? ?he ploughman in America, using his horses, is fifty per cen? more etiicien? ?han ?he ploughman here, using his bullocks. I am aware '?ha? ?he da?a are insufiicien? ?o warran? much s?ress being laid on ?his conclusion, bu? I pu? i? forward as provisional. much less ?han has usually case. will Certainly been ?he difference is considered ?o be be noticed ?ha? I have no? here considered anything abou? ?he pay received for ?he work and made no a?emp? ?o correlate work done ?he pay received for i?. That is a la?er stage done, wi?h in ?he investigation, bu? ?o in?roduce i? at presen? would only serve ?o complicate the question which mus?, I .think, firs? be worked ou?,--namely, wha? can be considered as a normal day's work of an exper? Indian cultivator in various directions, given ?he bes? appliances which he has himself evolved, or ?hose which have been the special conditions more recently devised ?o sui? under which he is working. I CaIoulated from d?t? given by Mowry: A normal da?'? work for various farm opzrat/on?. (Bull. No.