Show Loggias Dobbins Q 12 iris iri's PaI Palate te Isa Is a JI s Secondary Factor j Supply and Price of Feeds Determines Diet Tickling the palate of t the farm horse is n a secondary Y consideration In planning his 1118 menu John P. P Dowler Downer of the rural economics department of ot the Ohio agricultural experiment statIon station sta star tion hits has discovered that the quantities quantities quan quan- of home grown feed on n h hand nd and Its market price principally In Influence influence In- In fluence of diet of the farm horse In H 1927 27 when corn was was higher er in price than during the year ar 20 bushels more of oats were fed per horse than In 1020 1920 on on 20 20 O farms in Putnam county where records were collected by the rural economics de- de de de' The he amount bf of foro porn corn fed per horse remained about Jh the same both years but the horses worked 0 per percent percent percent cent more hours in l 1027 27 when the larger larger quantity of at oats w were re fed ted than hun thanin thanin in the previous year I f IOn I On these farms pounds more mor of ot hay and und poun pounds s less ess of ot corn stover were fed per horse during 1027 1927 21 than thon In 1926 1020 Hay Huy was relatively low lowIn lowIn lowin In price nn and most farms had ii il good supply In 1927 1921 hence th thy y fed more of It rather ruther than the corn stover The Time farmer feeds feeds' his horses those feeds of which he has hns had a a good ol crop and which are us usually ally low In price Dowler finds The pleasure or desires of his horses horses' are are not not consulted con consulted con con- consulted but rather an nn economical cost ost of horse work Is kept in mind |