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should be charged to the workstock. The number of months the 

 horses were on pasture and the value of pasture per head per month 

 was obtained from part of the men and from others the number of 

 acres of pasture which the horses used and the value per acre for the 

 season. 



Exclusive of the grass and stalk pasture, the average ration per 

 head consisted of 6,120 pounds of roughage and 2,830 pounds of grain. 

 This is probably somewhat lower than the average amount of feed 

 per year consumed by the horses on the farms where tractors are not 

 owned in these same areas. It was impossible to obtain accurate 

 figures on this subject, but many of these tractor owners stated that 

 their horses were idle most of the time when horses on other farms 

 were being used daily for the heavy work of plowing and preparing 

 the seed bed, and that during such times their horses were on pasture, 

 or received only a light ration of grain and hay. 



The average prices of feeds for the year as obtained from the 

 farmers in the different areas are given in Table 30. 



Table 30. — Prizes oj horse feeds in different areas. 





Hay 

 per 

 ton. 



Stover 

 per 

 acre. 



Straw 

 per 

 ton. 



Corn 

 per 



bu. 



Oats 

 per 



bu. 



Pasture. 



Stalks. 



Location. 



Per 

 acre. 



Per 

 month. 



Per 

 acre. 



Per 

 month. 



Madison County, Ohio 



823. 93 

 24.17 

 23.91 

 22.61 

 28.62 

 25.76 



85.58 

 8.34 



10.55 

 6.11 



10.80 

 8.38 



83.57 

 5.00 

 7.90 

 8.74 

 9.56 

 9.02 



81.48 

 1.50 

 1.52 

 1.47 

 1.43 

 1.47 



80.69 

 .81 

 .75 

 .75 

 .73 

 .73 



87.17 

 7.00 

 9.11 

 6.80 

 6.81 

 7.50 



82.85 

 2.23 

 2.19 

 2.18 

 2.33 

 2.51 







Seneca County, Ohio 







Madison County, Ind 



Montgomery County, Ind 



Livingston County, "ill 



Knox County, 111 



81.35 

 1.11 



81.50 

 1.74 

 1.79 

 1.59 



All 



24.94 



6.96 



8.74 



1.47 



.74 



7.25 



2.34 



1.14 



1.73 



The value of grain and hay is now (Sept., 1921) considerably less 

 than during the year covered by the investigation. Based on the 

 prices for grain and roughage given below, the cost of the average 

 ration per year would be about $60. 



Corn, 53 cents per bushel. • 



Oats, 29 cents per bushel. 

 Loose hay, $13 per ton. 

 Straw, $4.50 per ton. 

 Stover, $3.50 per acre. 



The figures for corn, oats, and hay are the average prices to farmers 

 in Sept., 1921, for the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as re- 

 ported by the Bureau of Crop Estimates. The prices of the straw 

 and stover have been obtained by reducing the prices given in 

 Table 30 by the percentage of decline in the price of hay since the 

 time of the investigation. 



The average cost per farm of feed for the workstock for the year 

 1920 as obtained in the investigation was $904. If the feed had 



