Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-04 | Page 2 | Costs $100 a Year to Feed a Mule

COSTS A YEAR TO FEED PEED A MULE Farmers Cannot Afford to Feed Peed Three Bales of Cotton P Per r Year to Each Head of Stock MACON ACON r. r Ga Feb 4 Do Do you know knowl that there will not be one-half one as many manymules manymules manymules mules sold In Macon this year as last said George to reporter There are three causes which make this this true true The first Is the high price of mules second the high price of feed and third the low price of cotton Last year the farmers got abut about 11 cents for their cotton and because of this price they purchased mules with the intention of paying for them this year The price of f feed last year was much lower than now and it ft did not dost ost as much to keep stock Today corn cornIs cornis cornis is worth 86 cents and the farmers cannot cannot cannot can can- not afford to tOJ buy buy it at such a price when cotton MS is only worth 7 and a fraction cents Good mules are scarce this year and are hard to tc get Last year there were about worth of mules sold by the dealers In Macon This year i there will not be over worth of mules sold Many of the farmers are glad to sell their mules instead of buying buyIng buy buy- ing new ones By giving a mule a peck of corn a day or seven and a a. half halt bushels a month it will cost at the present price of corn 45 To ro feed a mule one month a farmer must raise eighty p pounds of cotton This do does s not Include the hay and fodder that Is fed to a mule TL TJ itself will cost oost making a total of 8 85 or more than the value of pounds of lint cotton a mule will eat each month In a year the mules mule's f feed ed will equal in cash or about three bales o of cotton