42 A STUDY OF FAEM EQUIPMENT IN OHIO. 



cost $75 to $150. Reservoirs are sometimes found necessary in con- 

 nection with deep wells and windmills. These store up a surplus of 

 water at a depth from which it can be easily pumped by hand when 

 lack of wind cuts off the supply from the well. The cost of construc- 

 tion is about the same as for cisterns. 



PERSONAL PROPERTY ON THE AVERAGE FARM. 



The requirements of the average farm as to live stock and machin- 

 eiy are discussed in the following pages, including Table XIII, which 

 was compiled from the inventories. 



HORSES. 



In Table XIII the horses and mules on the group of 21 farms are 

 divided into 5 classes with respect to use. The general-purpose, 

 draft, and draft-and-brood classes might be grouped as work animals, 

 with an average of 4.48 per farm, but the subdivision indicates a little 

 more clearl}^ the character of the animals. The draft-and-brood ani- 

 mals are mares regularly worked rather than mares kept for breed- 

 ing purposes only. The general-purpose animals are those used for 

 both work and driving on several small farms. The data indicate 

 that 4 work horses, 2 head of young stock, and either a driving 

 horse or brood mare, which may occasionally be worked, are about 

 the average requhements as to horses. 



The 94 horses used partly or wholly for hea\y work on the 2 1 farms 

 averaged 1,250.3 pounds in weight. From Table II (p. 12) it wiU be 

 seen that these farms averaged 85.71 acres of harvested crops. This 

 would mean an average of 19.13 acres of crops per work animal. 

 The acres of crops per work animal varied from between 10 and 11 

 acres on farms 3, 7, and 22 to 31.1 acres on farm 17. On 55 farms 

 visited by JVIi*. Thompson and the statistical cooperators, 8.4 horses 

 were found to be the average per farm. On 54 of these farms, from 

 which data were more complete, averaging 199.55 acres in size and 

 125.54 acres in harvested crops, an average of 5.39 work horses per 

 farm was found, and the acreage of harvested crops per work animal 

 averaged 23.3. On one group of 27 farms, averaging 153.65 acres in 

 size, the acreage of crops per work animal averaged 18.9, and on a 

 group of 17 farms averaging 272.44 acres the average crop area was 

 27.5 acres per work animal. 



The farms in Ohio visited by Mr. Thompson were mostly in the 

 southwestern part, the level, "large-farm" area. On 17 farms visited 

 in 1907 and 1908 by him 119 work horses were kept, averaging 1,368 

 pounds in weight, with an average value of $158.91 and an average 



