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Show ACUTE SHORTAGE OF HORSES Farmers Experience Difficulty in Obtaining Ob-taining Animals Required for Farm Work., Difficulty is being experienced by many farmers In obtaining work horses needed. This fact has been made clear to W. II. Peters, chief of the animal husbandry division of the University of Minnesota, by the number of Inquiries In-quiries made by him and members of his staff as to the available supply of farm work horses. "There isn't any doubt that for the last two years the number of colts raised has been less than the number of horses that have died," said Professor Pro-fessor Peters. "Is the inevitable result re-sult of this condition already making itself evident? If thUs condition is maintained an acute shortage of work horses is bound to result. "Farmers who . have good sound mares will find it profitable to breed them. This will be particularly true If the mares can be mated to a good sound stallion of desirable draft type. In communities where such a stallion Is not available any farmer with a half dozen or more mares will find it profitable prof-itable to purchase and keep such a horse." |