Show I DEMAND FOR FOIt WORK ORK HORSES CS ON UT 11 FARMS rAItIS JS IS PREDICTED By E J Maynard By ByE Dean School cf Agriculture U S 6 A O 0 With a steady decrease In state and national horse POPulation and with the loss los of some 1600 horses last summer and fall due to the ravages of encephalomyelitis brain feser fe the need for gOOd draft horses in Utah Is extremely acute Utah is 15 sell ell adapted to the production tion of good sound farm horses and now Is the time for farmers to be planning for the 1935 colt crop The horse pOpulation has diminished 43 per cent percent In numbers since 1918 and with the added 10 loss 8 due to disease there is every Indication of a heavy demand for good farm fann horses for several years to t come comeIn comeIn In a recent address Wayne Dins Dim Dinsmore more secretary of the Horse and Mule aSSOCiation of America Indicated that at present of the total horse POPulation 85 per cent are at work on farms 5 1 per cent are at ork w ork In cities or other non agricultural ork 3 per cent are In use under the saddle and there are arc onlY 7 per cent too young oung to work There are several gOOd horse breed breed- breeders breeders ers and dealers in the state who con can supply purebred draft stallions of de- de desirable type and conformation at dej the present time Among these may be j pem h FOl Foi I 1 J M 11 and andE E i iSon I Son harHon hof on and W S Hansen SOM sarc of Collin on oon Active horse s are arc being held at both the Ogden Salt Lake union umon stock yards colts Farmers a it develop in Sint develop Into farm horses should hould make plans nos no have good sound mares to t breed u J Ing the spring of 1934 of fa blOCky or drafty conformation wel wei inS ing In the neighborhoOd net of 1400 you pOu hen mated close to to a 2000 draft stal she ss close to 2000 pounds she produce the correct type and size h for Utah demands |