COST OF PRODUCING WINTER WHEAT IN OREGON 
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HORSE WORK « 
The number of work stock per farm, hours of horse work per farm 
and per head of work stock, the cost of keeping work stock and the 
cost of horse w T ork for the years 1920 to 1922, inclusive, on tractor 
and nontractor farms are given in Tables 8 and 9. 
Table 8. — Utilization and average cost of keeping work stock on tractor farms, 
1920-1922 l 
Item 
Size of farm acres.. 
Tillable area per farm do 
Work stock per farm number.. 
Tillable acres per horse per farm do 
Acres in wheat per horse per farm do 
Acres in other crops per horse per farm do 
Acres in summer fallow per horse per farm do 
Value of work stock per farm dollars.. 
Value of work stock per head do 
Cost of keeping work stock per farm do 
Grain and mixed feed fed per head of work stock pounds.. 
Hay and roughage fed per head of work stock. . . do 
Cost of keeping work stock per head dollars.. 
Hours worked per farm per year number.. 
Hours worked per head per year do 
Cost per hour of horse work cents.. 
1920 (23 
farms) 
1,175 
909 
13.2 
69 
31 
2 
36 
1,736 
132 
1,543 
971 
8,624 
117 
8,336 
632 
19 
1921 (27 
farms) 
1,105 
882 
14.6 
60 
26 
3 
31 
1,756 
120 
1,361 
871 
8,979 
93 
10, 692 
731 
13 
1922 (20 
farms) 
1,296 
998 
16.2 
62 
29 
4 
29 
,373 
771 
,108 
85 
,155 
564 
15 
3-year 
average 
1920-1922 
1,183 
924 
14.6 
63 
28 
3 
32 
1,704 
117 
1,424 
869 
8, 597 
97 
9,479 
649 
15 
1 Certain farms have been omitted from this table for various reasons, such as: More than one tractor 
per farm, an excessive amount of contract horse work, a large amount of horse work done outside, and other 
irregularities, which makes them incomparable with the farms included in Table 9. 
Table 9. — Utilization and average cost of keeping work stock on nontractor farms, 
1920-1922 1 
Item 
1920 (56 
1921 (79 
1922 (72 
farms) 
farms) 
farms) 
1,004 
992 
1,022 
740 
756 
755 
17.9 
18.4 
18.6 
41 
41 
41 
19 
18 
18 
3 
3 
3 
19 
20 
20 
2,151 
2, 034 
1,863 
120 
111 
100 
1,751 
1,521 
1,460 
584 
664 
547 
6,742 
7,896 
7,060 
98 
83 
78 
14,154 
15, 627 
12, 927 
791 
849 
695 
12 
10 
11 
3-year 
average 
1920-1922 
Size of farm acres. 
Tillable area per farm do 
Work stock per farm number. 
Tillable acres per horse per farm do 
Acres in wheat per horse per farm do... 
Acres in other crops per horse per farm do. . . 
Acres in summer fallow per horse per farm do 
Value of work stock per farm dollars. 
Value of work stock per head do 
Cost of keeping work stock per farm do 
Grain and mixed feed fed per head of work stock pounds 
Hay and roughage fed per head of work stock do... 
Cost of keeping work stock per head dollars. 
Hours worked per farm per year number. 
Hours worked per head per year do... 
Cost per hour of horse work cents. 
1,006 
751 
18.3 
41 
18 
3 
20 
2,006 
109 
1,562 
602 
7,298 
85 
14, 289 
780 
11 
1 Certain farms have been omitted from this table for various reasons, such as: An excessive amount of 
contract horse work, a large amount of horse work done outside, owning self-propelled combine, and other 
irregularities which makes them incomparable with farms included in Table 8. 
For these years the total area per farm averaged 177 acres larger 
and the tillable area averaged 173 acres larger on tractor than on 
nontractor farms. Notwithstanding the larger size of tractor farms, 
an average of 3.7 less horses per farm were kept than on nontractor 
farms. The tillable area per horse on tractor farms averaged 63 acres 
8 See Department Bulletin No. 1447 for a detailed analysis of the cost of keeping work stock on Sherman 
County (Oreg.) farms. 
