Show RETURNS FROM WORK HORSES HORSE many little points are enumerated that will lessen cost of animal labor on the farm by A H BENTON assistant agrical Agri cul aurist university farm st paul paal minn one of the most frequent sources of loss losa on the farm is insufficient return from work horses have you satisfied yourself on the following points do your horses earn enough to pay tor for their teed feed and care and enough to meet the interest depreciation and other expenses as harness costs and shoeing it costs costa annually to keep the average horse tn in minnesota but this horse works only a little more than three hours each working day this makes the horse horae labor cost approximately ten cents an hour do you handle the horse labor on your farm no BO that the annual cost ot of keeping your horse Is less than the average or so that the number 0 of h hours u urs worked Is greater doth both methods will reduce the cost of the horse labor but the latter offers by far the greatest opportunity can you revise your cropping system so BO that fewer work horses will bo be needed or a r so BO that the work will be more equally eq bally distributed and thus make it possible to employ them theramore more hours each year can you raise colts colta and thus reduce the cost of keeping kee ping your horses can you arrange to use your work horses for outside work when not busy on the farm can you reduce the cost of keeping each horse by feeding less teed feed or cheaper feed and still give a proper ration farm work done with fewer horses means a saving of a year for each horse not needed |