FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA 
Table 36. — Unit requirements -per year for a work horse, 1921 
47 
Farm No.i 
Horses 
per 
farm 
Cora 
Small 
grain 
Tame 
hay 
Wild 
hay 
Pas- 
ture 
Total 
grain 
Total 
rough- 
age 
Man 
labor 
Shoe- 
ing, 
veter- 
inary, 
medi- 
cine 
Total 
work 
22 ... 
Number 
7.0 
8.0 
4.8 
4.0 
7.4 
4.8 
6.0 
5.0 
7.0 
5.2 
7.0 
5.0 
5.0 
6.6 
5.9 
8.8 
2.8 
8.0 
7.0 
6.0 
5.3 
3.4 
Lbs, 
946 
""626" 
"""84l" 
2,155 
1,294 
2,004 
2,389 
908 
2,512 
1,118 
339 
2,956 
1,687 
2,820 
1,523 
1,056 
3,113 
2,432 
2,839 
3,927 
Lbs. 
42 
1,743 
1,808 
2,457 
1,972 
763 
948 
1,500 
1,800 
2,240 
682 
1,841 
3,309 
433 
2,435 
909 
2,072 
2,243 
2,690 
2,787 
1,009 
1,513 
Lbs. 
"""798" 
"1,753 
1,435 
"3,"370" 
966 
5,233 
3,813 
2,695 
"5," 809" 
"2,"387" 
2,301 
1,958 
6,970 
3,715 
4,440 
749 
Lbs. 
4,564 
2,695 
3,817 
2,823 
3,353 
5,351 
2,145 
3,141 
Days 
148 
195 
"Il5" 
33 
73 
111 
151 
Lbs. 
988 
1,743 
2,434 
2,457 
2,813 
2,918 
2,242 
3,504 
4,189 
3,148 
3,194 
2,959 
3,648 
3,389 
4,122 
3,729 
3,595 
3,299 
5,803 
5,219 
3,848 
5,440 
Lbs. 
4,564 
3,493 
3,817 
4,576 
4,788 
5,351 
5,515 
4,107 
5,233 
3,818 
5,429 
7,233 
7,409 
5,970 
6,394 
5,661 
8,359 
6,970 
9,331 
4,440 
7,757 
7,582 
Hrs. 
45 
25 
98 
81 
82 
93 
47 
65 
89 
78 
62 
72 
85 
83 
46 
69 
82 
51 
235 
72 
82 
123 
Dollars 
"""6." 44" 
""I."25" 
"""I." 30" 
1.43 
"""I.~07" 
""""."2I" 
"""2."32" 
3.38 
."43" 
""ToiT 
.59 
Hrs. 
433 
7 
5.1 
20 .. 
547 
13 
628 
12 
691 
17 
701 
10 
732 
19.. 
737 
3 
780 
16.. 
"2,"734~ 
7,233 
1,600 
5,970 
4,007 
3,360 
6,401 
"5,"616" 
113 
101 
19 
37 
88 
86 
71 
""96" 
24 
792 
6... 
792 
18 
793 
11.. 
823 
5 
831 
9.. 
834 
2 
858 
21 
885 
1 
896 
4 
910 
8... 
1,003 
14 
7,008 
7,582 
60 
15 
1,069 
15 
1,238 
Average: 
130 horses, 1921... 
1,708 
1,397 
1,646 
1,774 
2, 350 
2,725 
3,376 
2,266 
74 
60 
3,354 
3,171 
5,726 
4,991 
79 
78 
.57 
.71 
780 
132 horses, 1920... 
824 
1 Farms are arrayed in order of hours worked, beginning with the lowest. 
CAUSES FOR VARIATIONS IN FEED REQUIREMENTS 
The largest number of hours of work per horse was performed on 
farm 15, which has the highest feed requirements of any farm except 
farm 4. The latter has much larger horses and raises colts in addi- 
tion to working the horses. The lightest grain feeding was practiced 
on farm 22, on which horses were worked the fewest number of hours. 
The extensive use of pasture saves hay or grain, or both, as is 
shown by the farms using most pasture — 7, 19, and 22. The hay 
requirements are low on all three and the grain very low on 7 and 22. 
The grain feed is usually heavier where it consists largely of corn, 
and the roughage feeding is heavier where it consists largely of 
wild hay. 
The heavier feeding of both hay and grain in 1921 as compared 
with 1920 is due in part to the fact that the price of feeds had de- 
creased so greatly that less economy in their use was practiced in 
1921. 
CAUSES FOR VARIATION IN MAN LABOR ON HORSES 
In general, the more horses per farm the less labor required per 
horse. There are several operations, such as feeding, where the time 
spent per horse does not increase as the number of horses increases. 
It does not take twice as long to feed the eight horses on farm 1 as 
it does to feed the four on farm 13. 
On farms 7, 19, and 22, where the greatest use of pasture for horses 
is obtained, the chore labor on horses is least. The labor of feeding 
and currying the horses, as well as cleaning and bedding the barn, 
is saved when the horses are on pasture. 
