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BULLETIN 997, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
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 then 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.- 
-Prices 
of horse feeds in different areas. 
Hay 
per 
ton. 
Stover 
per 
acre. 
Straw 
per 
ton. 
Corn 
per 
bu. 
Oats 
per 
bu. 
Pasture. 
Stalks. 
Loeation. 
Per 
acre. 
Per 
month, i 
Per 
acre. 
Per 
month. 
Madison County, Ohio 
$23. 93 
24.17 
23.91 
22.61 
28.62 
25.76 
$5.58 
8.34 
10.55 
6.11 
10.80 
8.38 
S3. 57 
5.00 
7.90 
8.74 
9.56 
9.02 
$1.48 
1.50 
1.52 
1.47 
1.43 
1.47 
$0.69 
.81 
.75 
.75 
.73 
.73 
$7.17 
7.00 
9.11 
6.80 
6.81 
7.50 
$2. 85 
2.23 i 
2. 19 J 
2. 18 j . 
2.33 i 
2.51 
Seneca County, Ohio 
Madison County, Ind 
Montgomery County, Ind — 
Livingston County,1ll 
Knox County, 111 
fL'iK 
i. 11 
$1. 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 
