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Show lion m the line should leave rather iu definite the date of his atwtiraliou. THE HORSE When the first " broomstick " trolley trol-ley swept along Tremont anil Boylston streets, "Our Dumb Animals' waa quite naturally movc.l to exultant verse acclaiming the early emancipation of hordes of equine drudges. Kditorisl comment at the time discussed' more practically a poasihlo impairment of market quotations on horse flesh. Huch speculations were of course multiplied when ths sutoinohile stormed the streets snd roads. The fame snd utility of the horse, it wss boasted, woula linger only among Arabs snd Bedouins. On many an eststs tho stable sta-ble waa eclipsed by the garage, aod its tenanta became merely pensioners. The coming of the taxirab and the auto truck aave in turn been hailed ss the dismissal of tho patient draught animals ani-mals still cumbering the eity streets. The homo has, of course, lost a deal of his prestige, sentimental as well as practical, aa a unit of transportation. But all the bearish tips upon the market mar-ket for him have gone very wide of the mark. Instead the average horse is today worth 66 per cent more oa the farm then whea tha auto first loomed large five years ago, or than whoa tho trolley ear began its usurpation. This rather striking state of affairs Is emphssised by the currently published pub-lished Washington figures oa snimal values at opening of the year, which set a new high price mark oa ths k. m lul L' j i . i i i.. j,,..,. mtA tmmr. ket history ia recent years compare as follows: On Farms. Price. It ...... It.SOD.nne 1111.(1 into !i,n(i.nne im.is lues !n.s4n.ne .( 1" 1.I.HM) I. 41 I&07.... .. 1S.747.WH1 M.lt ISM lS.71S.ae0 S0.7J 17. OS. son 71). 17 WM la.SM.ono 14.(1 lsss lt.m.eno Mrs IH.9 14.214.000 SS.I4 1K5 ll.f.f..sos 71.70 Hue ll.tot.se 14. 7 l"75 tsoi.eoe i.lo 17S l.ltS.tO (7.4) Tho csreer of tho horse has naturally shaped iteelf according to derelopoieots ia our ajrrieultural economy. Thus tha "winning of the west" led to ths grestest recorded spurt ia Bombers, tho contrast being heightened by ths pre vious depletioa of tho wsr time. During Dur-ing tho wsr tho number of homes dropped nesrlr 1,000,000. Front' 117 to 1880 equine count rose rspidly from 8.600,000 to 11,200,000, tho farm Fries holding fairly close to tM a head, a tho following thirteen years there was a slower train of barely 48 M cent, or to 11.200,000, srith tho tine nearer 70. The leaa and dark farm-' ing years of 1KW.V9S, left their impress in an actual dwindling in numbers, or eeseatioa of breeding, which led tn a final low mark of leOO.OOO by 1900. Meanwhile tho price had crumbled to sn absolute low of $31.81 ia 1807, the ?'ear in which also ths government's ndez of commodity prices struck bottom. bot-tom. Hi nee that time the average price of commodities has reeevored about SO per coot that of ho rase tSO per eent. Ths recession in numbers daring the siaottes msy be otherwise illustrated by the set thst percentage of horse to humsn population, which held ona-atsnt ona-atsnt st It per rent in tho thro foregoing fore-going deeade, fell to 18 pee eent at 1100 -formiag the fooadatine for ths recent strong statistical position. Now tho relation is back to ti per eent, but with increased farming demand for the horse soetainiag tho strength in price. How pronounced baa beea tha rise tn the bora market i clear from the fact that sine 1WO0 the value of horse oa farms has rieen from CVi3.0On.OO0 to shout (2.400,000,000, or 300 per eent, while farm valne of .all farm products has gained but 7S per eent. or from g5-000,000,000 g5-000,000,000 to n,xo.ooo.ooo. It ia aa era of dearer sseste; yet form value per bora baa n sea 150 per cent from IIMiO, ssd that of sarin only M per eeat, that of cows snd shoep sack only 24 per cent. " It is, of eouse, th eosstry, not the city horse that shine in then figure. Te years sgo there were not enit 3. 000,000 nrban horse, againet 13,V0,-000 13,V0,-000 oa farms; it may be doubted if th former tutmher ha increased sp-preciably, sp-preciably, while tbe latter has risen 60 per cent. This agirrandirement of the farm horn has eunocslr coincided with steam traction ploughs, th substitution sub-stitution af other power driven for horse driven machinery, and with the farmer's joining the sato cnlt. There is still plente for tb horse to do. rx state I liiaois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Ne-braska, Kaosa snd Texas hav a.OoO,-0- or 5 per eent of all farm horsee. In tle eew-r ax-nrultur of emit a aad wr f ere is sn espeeislly esger :i - i- r-t f r horse ae well as mule. 1 . inr l ' e S"ri niay snectimb lo rivsl r -r o ' ' ' ' |