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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.