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Show 'Old Dobbin'Again In Great Demand With a steady increase in state and national horse population and with the loss of some 1600 horses last summer sum-mer and fall, due to the ravages of '' encephalomyelitis (brain fever), the need for good draft horses in Utah is extremely acute, says E. J. Maynard, dean school of agriculture, U. S. A. C. Utah is well adapted to the production produc-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 in numbers since 1918 and, with the added loss due to disease, there is every indication of a heavy . demand for good farm horses for sev- : eral years to come. In a recent address, Wayne Dins-more, Dins-more, secretary of the Horse & Mule I Association of America, indicated that at present of the total horse popula-' popula-' tion 85 per cent are at work on farma, 5 per cent are at work in cities or ; other non-agricultural work, 3 per cent are in use under the saddle, and there are only 7 per cent too young to work. There are several giod horse breed- ers and dealers in th; state who can ; . supply purebred draft stallions of T (Continued on last page) 'Old Dobbin Again In Great Demand (Continued from page 1) J desirable type and conformation at the present lime. Among these may be mentioned A. T. Money and Sons of Spanish Fork, J. M. Ritchie and Sons of Charleston, and W. S. Hansen and Sons of Collinston. Active horse sales are being held at both the Ogdeii( and Salt Lake union stock yards. Farmers interested in producing ; colts which will develop into desirable : farm horses should make plans now to have good, sound mares to breed! during the spring of 1934. Mares of fairly blocky or drafty conformation weighing in the neighborhood of 1400 pounds, when mated to a good draft stallion weighing close to 2000 pounds, should produce the correct type and size- horse for Utah demands. j |