Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-12-02 | Page 1 | The Horse Famine

The Horso Famine. W e aro hori'P poor 1101 ns some poo Ie are land poor because the) have ton much land-but horse poor because we have n't nioigh burses Our neighbor tin Sclcnllllc American his lieen 10111-Plalnlng 10111-Plalnlng about ll After the civil war we Ilium! ourselves short of horses of Ihn blgurr tv 1 en. and bigan Importing them for brooding purposes We Impoiled Ibeni 10 good pnrpisc nnd In ver) large minibus mini-bus and grcutlv Improved tho eiuullly nf our slock Winn electric It) begun lo haul street cms. Uu miirki t for the nun-miner nun-miner kinds of horses fell off and farmers farm-ers dliln t breed 10 nmlii When the automobiles au-tomobiles lie gun in uiipcar and wen ller-nldiil ller-nldiil an machines Unit must sui rseelo the lite nr inrrtut,!. horses, Ihu breedirs of Ihn heller class or horses look fright lor v.nrs afti t S3 too thousintls of people who wauled horses enuld lint uf-fnrel uf-fnrel In have Ihem Hut wllh the return nr pinsperll) llu demand fnr gnod horses begin to grnw UK ibi iml breeeilern bred more nr tin m IH" It tukes uluiul live )ears lo raise n horse that is III fur tin) market, anel Ihe bn.ders got behind Ihu douniiii has oillr in the supply, Iho price of good horses has Inereascsl ver) great-I) great-I) and limiorlcd slnlllons nro suld In Im worth nilirl) ten limes what Ihe) win I111 )eurs ngo rim H ulh Atrium war look a gnat number of horses nut of the country Including man) worthless unci, hut Hie, business nf horse-brii illug hut revived os much Unit we shall Slum hive axnln 11 reusonabl) full suppl) enterprising enter-prising farm, is novva.lavs Irpeeluo'd horses It puis nml bre e ding poor horn's desu't pnv Ve Import b irses from 1. 11. rope for bredolng purposes, and from I'uuiidi for use but of III" we havp px-portnl px-portnl far mure than we havo Imported, 11 ml we are llkelv to keep cm doing so 'Ih" annual hnnee slmvv In New York, which -cutis on Its surfnie 11 frivolous spiiticle null) holds n hlgbl) Impoiinui relation In nne nf ihe pteal Industries of the countlj II In Ihe pill cut lit ill Urn Mll'llc III limse sin. Mil mid Wllh them, lonslienily measures stimulates and ell reels the iiiiuilrv's regress In Ihe breed. big nl line horses '1 here inn about 13 -Fsioflin horses In our limt. of an istttmitel value nf ynittita The bill lieveinent of that much at" k Is a pnll Important matter, esneelnllv In these dl)S when Rurnpe l iiorsi poor too and ready to take from u any surplus supply of good horses Hist we ma coma to have Harper Har-per s W cc kl)