Show keeping extra team in r slack seasons is costly did you ever stop to figure out just how much it was costing coating you to keep an extra team on hand in stack slack sea sons 0 or r to have them eating off the he arm aim when they were idle durta lr the winter ju ter months the cost of keeping a horse one year in 1921 averaged about according to figures made up tip by the department of agriculture feed and bedding made up about CO 60 per cent of this figure not forgetting to figure what tile tha pasture was waa worth that tile alie horses used with this in mind it Is not only easier to see that a former farmer can estimate pretty closely whether it to Is worth something to keep on an extra team that Is idle most of tile the time or to raise colts and dispose of tho the older horses every year or two there are a good many progressive farmers who have found that it pays to raise a couple of 0 colto colta each year to make the mare pay a little of her cost back then they are in position to sell off an extra horse or two it if they find there Is no real need for keeping him during tho the slack slach season |