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workstock, and for the years 1917 and 1918 amounted to a little over 

 2 per cent. 



Feed. — Table 29 shows the average annual feed consumption per 

 head in the different areas. The detailed rations for the workstock 

 were obtained on only 253 of the 286 farms. On the remaining 33 

 farms the value of the feeds consumed was obtained but the amounts 

 were not. 



Table 29. — Feed for workstock. 



Area. 



Average annual feed consumption per head. 



W 



CO 



Pasture and eras?. 



Number of 



months or 



acres. 



■a = 



15 "S 



Stalk pasture. 



Number of 



months or 



acres. 



Bo 



Madison County, Ohio . 

 Seneca County, Ohio. . . 



Madison County, Ind . . 



Montgomery County, 

 Ind. 



Livingston County, 111 . 

 Knox County, 111 



1.63 



2.72 



1.66 

 1.54 



.47 

 1.15 



0.13 



.12 



1.04 

 .98 



2.49 

 1.23 



2.60 



1.06 



.22 

 .11 



.02 



.04 



36.1 



37.4 



37.0 

 36.2 



39.9 

 38.3 



4.6, 



29.2 



13.5 

 23.4 



29.2 

 24.4 



'5. 8 months. 



3.2 acres 



4.2 months. 



3.2 acres — 



None 



r5.9 months . 



.2.3 acres 



'5.3 months . 



,2.1 acres 



[4.2 months. 



<2.1 acres 



[None 



4.1 months. 



1.6 acres.... 



None 



3.0 months.. 

 None 



3.0 months . . 

 None 



3.1 months.. 



4.3 acres 



None 



3.3 months.. 



2.6 acres 



None 



160. 25 



■135. 56, 

 ■123. 10 



128 78 

 135. 13 



All. 



25:5 



1.32 



1.22 



37.8 



22.3 



4.8 months. 



2.3 acres 



None 



3.1 months.. 



3.3 acres 



None 



133. 6i 



The feeding practices varied considerably in the different areas. 

 In the Ohio areas and on a number of the farms visited in Indiana 

 corn stover made up a substantial part of the winter ration of the 

 workstock. In Illinois and on the Indiana farms where most of the 

 corn was husked from the standing stalk the horses were usually 

 turned into the stalk fields when husking was finished, and the stalk 

 pasture took the place of the stover. On many farms, especially in 

 Ohio and Indiana, the workstock had access to the straw piles, but 

 the owners usually considered that the straw thus consumed by the 

 horses was of little value and would make no charge for it. When- 

 ever the farmers considered that the straw used for bedding had any 

 value, this was included in the ration, and no attempt was made to 

 differentiate between it and straw used for feed. The large amount of 

 straw and the small amount of hay in the ration for Livingston 

 County, 111., is due to the fact that in the year 1919 very little hay was 

 produced in this county, and on many of the farms the horses had 

 been wintered on straw and stalk pasture only. 



On some farms it was rather difficult to obtain an accurate estimate 

 of the amount and value of both the grass and stalk pasture which 



