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Show EFFICIENCY OF FARM LABOR One Man and Three Horses Arranged to Do More Work Than Two Men and Four Horses. Efficiency of farm labor is often as important as its distribution. Two young men were plowing clover sod. Each had two horses hitched to a 14-inch 14-inch walking plow. It was heavy plowing, and each team was barely able to plow 1 acres a day. One morning the men decided to try three horses on one plow. They did so, and to their great surprise one man and three horses easily plowed three acres per day. They plowed as much as two men and four horses had previously pre-viously done and did it much more easily. . It was even easier for the driver, because be-cause it is always easier to drive a team that is not overloaded. The new arrangement released one man and one horse for other work. |