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worked by a horse on farms where cost accounts have 

 been kept is about 3 hours a day. Farmers usually count 

 that by having the colt come at the right time of the year, 

 they can raise a colt and yet have the mare do almost a 

 full year's work on the farm. 



As population increases, animals are fed less and less 

 on grain that is good for human food, and more and more 

 on low-grade products. One thousand bushels of grain 

 has about five times as much food value and will support 

 about five times as many people as the animal products 

 produced from it. 1 



132. Live-stock produced on cheap time. Not only 

 are the foods used in animal production very largely waste 

 products, but the time spent on animals is, to a large 



FIG. 59. Most of the poultry products are produced by woman and 

 child labor. 



extent, time that does not have full value. Most of the 

 farm poultry is taken care of by women and children. 

 Much of the milking is done by women or children, or 

 by men who put in a fairly full day's work besides doing 

 the milking. 



1 See also C. G. Hopkins, Soil Fertility and Permanent Agriculture, 

 pp. 226-235. 



