8 ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 



Other Uses of the Horse. Among the Tartar tribes 

 of northern and central Asia, mare 's milk and horse- 

 flesh are still used for the food of man. Old horses 

 are always fattened for the meat markets of France 

 and other countries of Europe. 



Most Horses in America. To-day in Great Britain 

 there is one horse to every twenty people ; in France, 

 one to every ten people; and in the United States, 

 one to every five people. So we have more horses 

 in America than there are in any other country, and 

 we make them do more of our work. 



Horse Power Cheap. Human labor costs more 

 than any other kind of labor, so the farmer has 

 learned to use his horses for many purposes. Years 

 ago, when harnesses were poor and tools crude, 

 many things were done by human hands that are 

 now done by horse power. To-day one good horse 

 can do as much work as ten men, while his board 

 and keep costs about half as much as that of one 

 man. 



Doing Forty Men's Work. A farmer boy who 

 drives a four-horse team hitched to a gang-plow is 

 doing as much work as forty men working with 

 hand tools. Four-horse plows and four-horse har- 

 rows are very common on the large farms in the 

 West. Some of the great harvesting machines em- 

 ploy as many as twenty or thirty horses and mules 

 on a single machine. 



Feeding the Horse. A horse's stomach is small, 

 so he cannot use as much bulky food as a cow. He 



