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 in different sections depending on ae e 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 have been keeping farm cost records some of them for several years on the same farms and the average costs shown by these records in the corn belt run very closely within thell the limits mits of to cents per horse per hour of actual work the general av crage one year with another Is right around 15 cents per hour or per day and this Is the figure most generally eral y used the F farmer armer |