348 



FARM MANAGEMENT 



did the work with 7 horses and 30 days of hired horse labor. 

 The regular policy on a farm should be to keep the 

 horses, as well as the men, at work. 



By pasturing and by roughing horses through the 

 winter, farmers are able to reduce the cost of horse labor. 



Another way to reduce the cost is to keep large mares 

 and raise draft colts to sell. 



Farmers who have only a small amount of work often 

 reduce the cost by having cheap horses. Such animals 



HOURS 

 1000 



Jon Fe.b MAR ApR f\Ay June July Au<j. Sp.pt OcT Nov. Dec 



FIG. 76. Distribution of horse labor on farm No. 3. Black is work fixed 

 as to time. White is work that might have been done at some other 

 time. Four horses kept. 



can work hard for the short periods when there is work to 

 do, and rest between times. Such horses should not be 

 bred. A better way is to increase the business so as to 

 provide full work. 



221. How much work should a horse do? By study- 

 ing Table 54 it will be seen that a horse raises 9 to 28 

 acres of crops in the different counties studied. In all 

 these regions the larger and better managed farms doubt- 



