. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. COST OF KEEPING FARM HORSES. 19 does the average time worked per week day rise above 3J hours. It may be noted, as illustrative of the application of these figures, that if the New York and Ohio farmers concerned had hired their horses out at 10 cents per hour, and had failed to work them more than 1,020 and 866 hours per year, respectively, they would have lost on each horse about 4 cents per hour worked. Of the various ways of keeping down the cost of horse labor, one of the best is to keep the horses busy (see fig.
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. COST OF KEEPING FARM HORSES. 19 does the average time worked per week day rise above 3J hours. It may be noted, as illustrative of the application of these figures, that if the New York and Ohio farmers concerned had hired their horses out at 10 cents per hour, and had failed to work them more than 1,020 and 866 hours per year, respectively, they would have lost on each horse about 4 cents per hour worked. Of the various ways of keeping down the cost of horse labor, one of the best is to keep the horses busy (see fig. 3).. Fig. 3.—Of the various ways of keeping down the cost of horse labor, one of the best is to keep the horses busy. LABOR PERFORMED, BY MONTHS. In figure 4 is shown the average work done per horse, by months, for each State group. Referring to this graph, the general importance of horse labor on these farms for May, June, and July will be seen. In each State very little labor was performed by the horses during January, February, and March. Thereafter the work increased until, during May, the maximum for any one month was reached. From then on to the end of the year there was a fairly uniform decrease in the hours worked per month. In New York and Illinois the increases in October and November are due to gram threshing and corn harvest. On the Ohio farms, with few exceptions, the average total of labor performed each month was less than on the Illinois and New York farms. Also, it will be noticed that during April, May, November, and December the horses on the Illinois farms worked more hours per. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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