===========+============================================================= MAN UNITS | MILITARY EQUIVALENT -----------+------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | 2.05 acres corn for grain husked from shock (New York | method) 5 | 2.46 acres corn for silage 6 | 2.05 acres sweet corn 10 | 1.233 acres potatoes 4 | 3.08 acres field beans 10 | 1.233 acres cabbage 20 | .616 acres tobacco 50 | .246 acres hops 15 | .822 acres roots (field beets, mangels, etc.) 2 | 6.16 acres buckwheat, oats, barley, wheat, spelt, rye (field | peas and mixtures of these) 1 |12.33 acres hay per cutting (alfalfa, clover, timothy) 2 | 6.16 acres oat hay, millet, and other grains cured for hay 15 | .822 acres apples, bearing, when cared for in commercial | way 3 | 4.11 acres apples, bearing, when little or no care is given 15 | .822 acres other tree fruits, bearing 2 | 6.16 acres fruit not of bearing age 20 | .616 acres berries 3 | 4.11 acres peas for canning factory 1 |12.33 acres seed (alfalfa, clover, timothy) 3 | 4.11 acres sorghum 10 to 35 | 1.233 aces truck crops ===========+============================================================= In the case of live stock a boy can do all the man work necessary in caring for 6 heifers or 82 hens or approximately one ordinary cow in the time which another boy may be giving to military training. The exact military equivalents are shown in the second column. ===========+========================================================== MAN UNITS| MILITARY EQUIVALENT -----------+---------------------------------------------------------- 15 | .82 cows, ordinary dairy (majority grades) 20 | .616 cows, pure-bred dairy (majority pure-bred) 2 | 6.16 heifer, calves, bulls, steers, and colts 2 | 6.16 steers or other cattle, fattened or only wintered 0.5 |24.66 breeding ewes and bucks (covers work on lambs) 0.2 |61.6 other sheep or lambs, fattened or only wintered 3 | 4.11 brood sows (covers work on pigs till weaned) 0.5 |24.66 other hogs raised during year 0.5 |24.66 boars 0.15 |82 hens and other poultry 0.15 |82 pullets, etc, raised during the year (covers work on | cockerels) 0.3 |41.1 hives of bees 6 | 2.05 thousand day-old chicks ===========+========================================================== Military equivalents as related to farm training or farm experience appear to be much easier to develop than those concerning mechanical training and experience, especially where the work of 16-year-old to 19-year-old boys is concerned.