Show Prospects Bright for Better Horses 4 COMPARiSOn OF THE mE NUMBER D R AND VALUE OF FARM HORSES VALUE Tr 1270 1875 t 75 13 5 1895 5 IS 0 1905 mo IS 5 M 0 V PC F-CR F P 1 r OF FARM HEAD J HORSES 1135 1105 l- l t fj USES tS I H OO l IOs I t a- a J 90 J t i r t 1 J is 75 J r i l lt a r so 60 soa r rs I 45 15 1 v 0 P 0 J 30 IS 15 j I U a 0 Both farm and city are nrc more and better according to the Sears Agricultural FOI Despite the D s and trucks in the States there ore are head of or horses and mules on farms today and horses pulling londs In Iii city streets lime rhe coi CO of or time llio auto and trucks reduced the equine workers In cities b by between 1910 1010 and 1920 n Il reduction of or 39 per cent But nut during the lie lost last three lears I there has lins been a 0 decided ed trend In the opposite direction Between 1910 anI and ID 1920 O the hors population on farms decreased 10 per percent percent percent cent On January 1 1924 1921 there was horses compared with six years year's nl's before This Thia was the r since 1905 Still Stilt 07 per percent percent percent cent ot of all Held field work ts is 1 done b by horns horses s mid and mummies mules Around Aloun 1915 under time the Influence nce of r tell stimulated war production find and replace replace- replacement replacement ment by mechanical power horse pries prices a L began Jp to decline By ny January of ot this year 0 values per hea head were tiie tI J lowe lowest t s 1003 Mule prices unlike how horses n advanced during the th mir peak In tn 1020 In l 1923 1023 3 there thera was u third more horses nn and mules sold ma lu-ma linn fining the tha th pi lous year Good mores mares find and stallions are scarce J time Ula Ir Will war horse breeding lan Ian languished languished The Time number of ot colts colic produced failed t to keep pac pace with the tho losse losses lossee by death Between 1910 1010 nn mind 1920 WO 19 0 Ilor horse c and mule colts combined decreased 22 2 per r cent The large largest t e of ot the horse hors population la Is old Low prices will 1111 continue continuo W to discourage horse hors and mule production and cause still further decrease In the population until the average price turns turn up- up upward up ward Unless breeding operations are ame Increased demand will soon be greater than the the supply lion How soon noon the tho marmet turning point will b be reached r for tor the rank and ond file Hie of ot horses hoi If Is uncertain have already Improved for tor time the bet better ter than medium grades gr dw The Time Increasing demand alon along aloni with tho the him Ic Is indicative that time the turning point Is In not far tar oft off ff |