286 Feeds and Feeding. 



a small amount. Each horse drank nearly 80 lbs. of water daily. At 

 the prices named for feed, the keep of each horse cost $74.33 per 

 year. During the year each horse performed an average of 2,146 

 hours of work, or about 7 hours for each working day — a large ag- 

 gregate for farm horses. The feed cost 3.4 cents for each hour of 

 work done. 



Grisdale of the Ottawa Experimental Farms^ reports that each of 

 the 19 station horses consumed during a year an average of 6,225 

 lbs. of meal or grain and 5,500 lbs. of hay. The average cost of feed 

 per horse w^as $99.80 per year, or 27.3 cents per day. It may there- 

 fore be held that a 1,200 to 1,400-lb. work horse wull consume from 

 2.5 to 3 tons of concentrates — grain, meal, etc. — and from 2 to 3 tons 

 of roughage — hay, straw, etc. — annually. 



' Ept. 1902. 



