Show RETURNS FROM WORK HORSES many little points are arta enumerated that will lessen coat cost cf of animal labor on the farm by dy A 11 HENTON assistant agriculturist aarm bt st paul minn oue of the most tre frequent quent sources of loss on the farm la Is insufficient return from work horses have you satisfied yourself on the following points do io your horses earn eam enough to pay for their feed and cap carli and enough to meet the interest depreciation and other expenses as harness costs and shooing shoeing it costs annually to keep the average horse in minnesota but this boree horse works only a little more than three hours each working day this makes the horse labor coat cost app roxi ten cents an hour do you handlo the horse labor on or your farm so that the annual cost of ot keeping 5 our horse la to less than the average or so that the number of hours worked ie in greater great ert both meth moth oda will reduce the cost of the horse labor but the latter offers by far the greatest opportunity can you revise your cropping tern tem so that fewer work horses will be needed or so that the will be more equally distributed and thus make it possible to employ them more houra hourn each year lear can you raise colts and thug thus reduce the cost sf of keeping your horses can you arrange to uso use your work horses for or outside work when not basy u on the farm arm can you reduce the cost of keeping each horse by feeding lesa less feed 0 cheaper feed and still give a proper ration work done with fewer horson deava a saving saying of a year toy fol each ame not needed |