Show Little Breeding of Farm Work Wark Animals Scarcity Is Looked For in inthe inthe inthe the Near Future By DAVID S. S WEAVER Agricultural Engineer North Carolina St State te College There Is no surplus farm work stock and the scarcity of mules and horses will increase as the main breedIng centers continue to use i tractors for tor power Horses and mules suitable for tor farm power are dying off from old age more rapidly than han they tIley are being produced In Inthe Inthe the he western states which formerly produced a large part of the horse and mule mole supply farmers have gone into tractor farming This has resulted re reo re- re suited In a displacement of ot breeding mares No 1 other section seems to tobe tobe tobe be Interested In producing the animals animals ani I mals of the size the southern farmer farm farm- er needs and it looks as If It he will have to get into this work for tor his own prot protection As long as we have small farms cut up by ditches and other obstructions obstructions lions we shall continue to need animal animal ani ant mal mel power for farming This means that a market will be available for tor mules and horses for a n long period From figures obtained from the Horse Association of ot America It was found there were eight million horses and mules under four years of age in the United States In 1020 1920 By 1930 1030 this number had decreased to about two and one half million Over half halt of the mules and horses living on 3 January nuary 1 were over ten years old which will explain ex cx- plain th the present high death rate of ot these animals These figures show a half halt million yearly decrease In horse and mule population and means that more and more farms will begin to depend on some other kind of power unless the animals are produced at home bome |