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horse than those in New York, while the horses on the New York 
farms did the greatest amount of work between June and November. 
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HORSE LABOR 
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Fic. 4.—Average number of hours worked per horse, by months. 
Referring to figure 5, in which is shown the extra horse labor used 
on the farms studied, it is found that in Illinois the greatest amount 
of extra horse labor was required during August. In Ohio and New 
York the greatest amount appears in October. This extra horse 
labor was usually exchange work among neighbors, the major part 
being used in grain threshing, corn harvest, and fall seeding. 
NUMBER OF IDLE WEEK DAYS PER YEAR. 
As previously shown, each horse. worked approximately three and 
one-fourth hours per week day on an average throughout the year. 
There were, however, on all of the farms a few week days im every 
month when no horse labor was performed. (See Table 14.) Ineach 
State over 50 per cent of the total number of week days during which 
no horse labor was performed are found in the months of January, 
February, March, and December. For the remainder of the year the 
week days when no labor was performed varied for different months 
