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Show former number, in 1932. A real shortage of horses will undoubtedly be felt during the next few years, predicts Professor Maynard, owing to the alarming decrease in number of purebred draft stallions In the state. Records Rec-ords of the Stallion Registration board indicate only about 10 per cent as many stallions recorded for t'he past year as were recorded in 1919. Utah's small irrigated farms, large livestock ranches and the mountainous nature of her topography, topog-raphy, tend to adapt her agriculture agricul-ture for horse, rather than for tractor power. The greatly reduced numbers should indicate a good market for well-bred draft individuals during the next few years. Although any of t'he draft breeds may be used to good advantage in Utah, the Percheron predominates in numbers num-bers in the state at the present time. 1 DRAFT HORSES DECREASE A survey taken of the horses in Utah county showed a steady decrease de-crease in the number of horses and an increase in the age. The average age of horses in the county coun-ty was ten years, in tabulating some 1400 head throughout the entire en-tire county. Prof. E. J. Maynard of the U.A.C. says, that horse numbers in Utah have steadily decreased during the past eight years from 141,666 in to 87,000, or 61 per cent of the |