Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — HORSE LABOR ON FARMS. [ARTICLE]

HORSE LABOR ON FARMS.

[National Crop Improvement Service.l On the grain- farm the heaviest work for the horses comes in April. May and iri August, September and October. The rest of the time there is practically nothing for the horses to do. But enough horses have to be kept during the year to take care of the work during these busy months. When averaged up the horse on the grain farm only works three hours a day, These figures were secured in an investigation by the Minnesota Experiment Station, under the direction of Thomas Cooper, now director of the North Dakota Experiment Station. In this same investigation it was found that when the crops are diversified, the horse labor is better distributed. There is less work for the horses in the seasons that are the busiest on the all-grain farm, and there is work or the horses when there is no work for the horses on the all-grain farm.