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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



United States where horse labor is cheaper than in Norman County, 

 Minnesota. On New York farms, horse labor usually costs 25 to 30 

 cents per hour for a team. Man labor costs 15 to 20 cents per hour. 

 Economy of horse labor is, therefore, seen to be even more important 

 than economy of man labor. 



COST OF HORSE LABOR 



The chief reason for the high cost of horse labor is the large amount 

 of time that horses do not work. On the farms in Minnesota the 



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FIG. i. Distribution of horse labor. Seven horses kept. If done at the 

 proper time, the work could be better done with five horses. Black is work fixed 

 as to time; white is work that could have been done at some other time. 



horses averaged a little over 3 hours a day for 30x5 days. On Farm 

 No. 3 in New York, an unusually well-organized farm, they worked 

 4 . 9 hours. This farmer kept lists of work for all kinds of weather, 

 so that all odd jobs were done when the teams could not work. A 



