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Show Cost of Keeping Work Horse Varies Greatly The cost per year for keeping a work horse and the cost per hour of work actually put in varies considerably con-siderably In different sections depending de-pending on the types of farming carried on, and even more widely among individual farmers in the same locality depending on how carefully the farm operations are planned and carried on and on how closely the number of horses kept is held to the actual power needs. Costs also vary slightly from year to year, depending on prices of grain and hay. Several of the agricultural colleges col-leges have been keeping farm cost records, some of them for several years on the same farms; and the average costs shown by these records rec-ords in the corn belt run very closely within the limits of 13.5 to 1G.5 cents per horse per hour of actual work. The general average one year with another is right around 15 cents per hour or $1.50 per day, and this is the figure most generally used. The Farmer. |