Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-07 | Page 6 | More Horses

MORE HORSES. Despite tho pleasure car, the commercial com-mercial truck, tho package dolivery car, tho c'clc car and all tho other lato perfections of tho motor vehicle, the price of horses is increasing! This almost unbelievable fact is noted in the current number of the Agricultural Outlook, a publication issued is-sued by tho -United States department of agriculture. And attention is also called to tho fact that tho price of mules is steadily increasing this in the "gasolino age." Not only'aro tho prices of horses and mules increasing, but statistics collected by the department, provo that tho number of animals is also increasing. increas-ing. Tn January of this year thcr were 3.4 per cent more horses aTOJ mules in the United States than were shown by the census of 1910. Tho total to-tal number of horses is placed at 20,-902,000 20,-902,000 and the number of mules at 4,449,000. Tho average farm price of a horse in 1910 was S10S.03. Tho average price in January of this year was $109.32, an increase of $1.29 per head. Mules havo dono still better, rising in average valuo from $120.20 per hoad in 3910 to $123.So this year. On this basis tho total valuo of farm horses in the United States is $2(291,63S,000 and that of mules $553,017,000. Tho total to-tal estimated farm valuo of these ani mals is therefore .2,S12.G55,000, which is an Increase of $19I,0S2,000 over tho .census year, and represents an annual incrcaso of wealth from thesu sources of $1S,520,000.