Show 18 THE HORSE PA8SINQ? Los Angeles Times Thousands of horses dead In Kansas Kan-sas of a mysterious dlseaso and tho epidemic spreading Into Coloradol This Is hord on tho farmers with crops to garner and lands to bo plowed. But porhnpB ilt Is a hint from naturo that tho ago of gasoline hns superseded tho era of tho quadruped. quad-ruped. Tho farmers who havo suffered suffer-ed from this epidemic will seek for some form of power that shall render ren-der thorn Independent of such a catastrophe ca-tastrophe ln the tuturo. Invention nlong tho lines ot motor plows nnd power harvesters and mechanically driven cultivators wfll follow on tho demand ot tho farmers for theso modern conveniences. So far tho horso on tho farm has hold hlB own; tho troubles in Kansas may drlvo him from his last sphere of usefulness. useful-ness. And yet wo should hato to see the horse pass away. |