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COST OF USING TRACTORS AND HORSES SHOWN IN YEAR'S WORK

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(Prepared by the United States Department o.' Agriculture.) , During Octobei uutl November, 1920, ^representatives of tlie United States Department of Agriculture visited 286 tractor-owners In Ohio, Indiana, and. • Illinois. A complete record of all tlie work done during the year both \*4tli tractors and horses was obtained from each farmer. Information from which jthe cost of using the tractor and the /\" cost of maintaining the workstock / could be determined wns nlso obtained. The Investigation was made through tlie co-operative efforts of the bureau of animal industry, office of farm management and farm economics and the bureau of public roads. In accordance, with plans outlined at the farm power conference at Chicago. III.. In October. 1919. The object was to obtain Information. In addition to tlint already available In the Department of Agriculture, which ui.ulj aid In deiertain* wing advantageous forms of power for different faints nnd iftfferent comlltlons. Farms Above Average in Size. The' average- sire ofjjte farms visited was 2!i8 acres. This Is considerably abhve the average size of all farms In these states. » Two-plow traetors were owned on 174 of the -S6 fanits. tbc^-plow traetors on 1Q4, and four-^IO^fractors on six farms. One farmer owned 11 oneplow machine, and one farmer owned a live-plow machine. Two-plow machines were found on 75 per cent of the -farms with less than 100 crop' acres, and on 53 per cent of those wltlf ' 16(1 or more crap .acres. One hundred and six of the tractors had been iq use one year, 100 had Iheen In use qne and one-half or two ,J-5eitra, 49 had Deen lit use two and onehalf or three years, and '31 had been In gee more than three years. On the average tlie tractors- were used for 30.8 full days during tlte year covered by the Investigation. Twentythree and live-tenths days of this was drawbar- Work * on the home farm, 2.7 days was belt work, and 4.6 dayswas custom work. Seventy-three of J. the 280 tractors did less than 20 days'« work during the year And 26 did 00 or more days,' work. • The number of workstock still owned varied from two head on 11 of . Uie farms to more than 15 on five of ' the large farms. On the average there ' were 6.8 head per furtu at the : time of the survey, and their value ' wns $145 iH-r head. In all there we're 1 1.878 head of workstock on the 286 ' farms and 111 colts less than one year j The average number of full dnysj J wofrk tier year per liorse, for nil furms ~ was 08.0. (in 20 of the farms the : workstock. djd less tlinn 40 full .days 1 1 » work and on *27 .they did 100 or more 1 f days work per year. , * | • The tractors did 8? per cent of the j 1 plbwing on these farms. 73 ]ner cent 1 ' ' of the disking. 43 per cent ofltbe har- j j - rowing, • plniNIng, ' rolling. nnd"^pacl; - Ing, 41 i>er cent of (he grain cutting, - 1 and about 15 per cent of the loading I ' aud hauling of hay. \ ' Of 267 mety who did spring plowing. , 1 142 did It. all with tractors. 121 used | 1 both tractors nnd horses, and four t used horses only. •Of 2E5 who did faH plowing"; 190 did It flIT with tractors. 27 used both c traitors and horses, and- eight used . f . horses ouly. a In all, the. power for 30- per cent "of r > tlie. drawlmr work on these farms, as t measured' by days of horse- labor ret s quired for It, was furnlslieil by' true- ! c tors nnd the reptalnder by homes. I t . The pverage cost per head of keep- v tng workstock on these farms for (he 1 year eliding November 1, ,1920, -wns 1 $159. and Oie average cost pet farm, v hv $ l.Tli. f Corts 46 Cant* Daily to Feed Horse, f • Exclusive of grass and stalk pnsture, '• . . tbp p-eraire ration i»»r borne consisted 1 .of 1.3 tons ot -hay. -1.2 tons of straw, t o.'J acre of stover, 37.8 bushels of conr. j ' : ml 22.3 bushels of oats. The total | 'it • of feed p'"x hen'd was $134. Based a 0:1 present prices (March. 1921), tbe 1 t— - of feed j-er head would he'about t . $89.. ,.x The average cost per' day of horse .t labor for .the yenb.of the survey was t $2.43. Bused on present prices thecost 1 - on thehe. farms, would be not fnr from : $1.50 per day. t The average first coat of the two- 1 plow trahtors wns $978, of the ftjree- < plow tractors $1,354. and of all trac- t tors $1,140. The nverjlge .amount spent 1 for equipment, mostly plows and disks, 1 for use with tractors wss about $340. The average value of tne horSe-drawa Implements, disposed of .after the pur- 1 chase of the tractors wis $12. 1 Hie average life of these tractors as s.-tlms"-! by -thfclr owners la 6.7 1 - * .A...

years. Tlie annual depreciation of the two-plow tractors amounted to $164,. and of the three-plow $217. The annual cost of- repairs, Including" the | value of the owner's time spent ln,re- • pairing the tractors, was $39 for both the two-plow and three-plow sizes. The fuel consumption per day for the two-plow tractors varied from abyut 18 gallons for fall plowing toabout 11 gallons for drawing the buy loader. For the three-plow tractors it varied from 23 gnftons for plowing to-' •15 gallons for drawing the hay louder, Tlie two-plow tractors covered 6.6 acres ■ per day In plowing and threeplow machines 8.6 acres. The amount of fuel required' per acre by the two sizes was practically the suite, 2.8 gallons for the two-plow nnd 2.7 gal-. Ions for the three-plow tractors. Difference in Plowing Costs. The average cost per Here of power for the plowing done - with two-plow tractors was about $2 and with tba three- plow About $2.20. The cost of power for the plowing dotm with horses 011 these farms was atjrfut $2.90 . per acre. Based on the present costs of keeping workstock, the cost of power for plowing .with horses would be about $1.90 per acre. For tpost of the other operations the cost of power when furnished oy horses was. slightly less than when furnished by tractors. The cost i>er acre of power for disking with tractors wns $0.07, ' with horses. $0.64 ; for cutting grain with tractohi, $0.67; with horses, $0.59. These figures represent the cost ol power only, and do not includq either the eoitt of man labor, or that of the. implements used. Tlie average cost per day of two- 1 plow tractors • for drawbar Work on the home farm was about $12.65, anil of three-plow tractors about $17.75. The tola I -cost of power furnished by the tractors for druwbac-work at home during the yenr averaged $341. Thb drawbar work on the home farm constituted -76 per cent of the total work ' done by the tractors, and only 76 per cent of the total annual charge for depredatlgn. repairs, and interest on Investment. is Included In ft Trictor Reduces Number of Workstock Needed. On -flie 172 farms where there* had no change in acreage the numof workstock had been reduced by head, an average reduction of 26 cent. Forty-four of thebe 172 men hail not reduced the number of workstock, 62 had disposed of one or two bead, 43 had disposed of three or four head, nnd 23 of more than four bCiid. lln these 172 farms one horse/ had "con, kept for eftch 28" acres (total acres, 'not crop acres) before purehuse of tractors, and; at the time of the survey there was one horse for each j 37.7 acres. For all the farms there been an average of one horse for ! each 27,6 acres, before purchase of j tractors, and there was one for each ! 3"-9 acres at the time of the luvestiguI tlon.- On the farms where" there had | no change in acreage there had 1>een one horse for each 21.5 crop acres the purchase of tractors, and . there-was one for each 29 crop acres at the time of the fnvestigation. Operating Costs May Be Reduced. There were greut variations on individual farms ' In the cost, of power furnished by both horses afid tractors; nnd by mare careful management many farmers could doubtless reduce cost. Repair costs andTuel consumption of the tractors could In many have been "reduced by more care- : I operation." The cost of keeping workstock could have been reduced on many farms by more carqful feeding practices. Tlie average annual cost of power for the drawbar work on the. home farm which was done with tractors ^qual to the cost of keeping 2.1 head -of workstock and this is practically the average nmnber displaced per farm. On the basis o'f present prices, however, the cost of keeping workstock /has declined couslderably than the" cost of operating trac- ' Since, (luring tbe year covered bv .the Investigation, the cost of power ori. the average farm was no greater than It hatl-nll.beeu furnished hy horses, saving In" man Inbor costs. any-, gain -due to getting a larger" amount of -work done In a glvev time, and any other Advantages conrtt^ted ,wlth the ^f trqetors which cannot be kneasitretL directly .in dollars" unl cents; might be considered elear profit. It Is doubtful, how.ever. If sueh gulps jvere great-, enough td balance the cos: of operating the tractors on ntapj of'*He 'arms where, .there wae no change |b acreage and where no workstock waa displaced.

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