Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-11 | Page 4 | Twenty Million Horsepower

TWENTY MILLION l HORSEPOWER I THAT American farms need is S V Y horses for double duty then duty then pr prosperity sp rity would return to the farmer The TlC authority for this is C C. W W. y Crawford horse husbandry expert at the University of Illinois There w were re that many counted in 1915 The double duty referred to means that the thc animals are arc needed for power to replace machinery and for the consumption of hay and gr grain in The decline of the horse has continued to such an extent that it has affected the entire problem of farm prices Restoration of the horse lorse to farm labor says Mr l Crawford would do more mor than anything else to wipe out un un- of grains and hay and would bring back 68 cent corn and 43 cent oats oats' of 1915 These farm animals animals would cat he says more oats th n are arc now marketed and 85 per percent percent percent cent of the corn which was shipped out of producing counties counties' in 1932 Overproduction of Ot grains is not the cause of low price s because a about out the same amount of corn and oats oats' has be been n produced in recent years as before the war the same authority argues The big 1932 crop had been exceeded exceed exceed- cd ed four times in the past twenty y years ars and equaled three times i in 1 the thc same period and in the case base o ot oI oats the thc increase in in- production gin in the period 1932 1928 was wasp o only y 1 4 1 per percent percent percent cent against which there has has' been een the normal increase crease in population l lie e us uses s this this' show ing lug to support his contention Other factors enter into consumption figures but h he maintains main main- maintanis tanis that the l horse is the hc key to the whole situation So here is another crumb of comfort com com- corn com fort for fOl the technologists if anyone remembers remembers bers what I they are by this time