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Show : MINERSV1LLE HORSE ! SURVEY SHOWS LOSS By LEW MAR PRICE Beaver County Agent A survey of the craft horse situation situa-tion in Minersvilie, made in December, Decem-ber, shows an unhealthy condition in . ' that phase cf farm business. j The check showed 154 craft horses j Ion the farms in that district. Of; that number, SO. or 5S.3 per cent are 15 years of are or over; only six, head are from 2 to S years old. anil ro colts were bom in 1SS1. Six mar-' es were bred in lfSl for lf-32 foal; Sixteen or lO.Si1 per cent of the 15-5 : head died durinr IvSl. ( By breeding this year. 132, it is; possible to have colts 3 years old and j ready to do lich: work ry 1PS-3. but ' by that time, at the present death : rate. 50 per cent of the remaining-' IcS head will be dead and many of i the others too eld to be of any ser-; ser-; vice. A.n even greater death rate is ' to be expected during the next four i years. I It is true the craft torse today nas little or no sale value, but he does ;us: as much .work on the farm and is .vast as necessary for its success-' fail operation as when his sale value : was much greater than at present. Are we waiting for modem soienoe . to come forth with a ruaohiue that will replace the horse on the farm, as : it has cone on the road, or are we just marking time, thinking that horses can be bought more cheaply I than they can be raised ? In three j or four more years, when -10 or tO per cent of the present horse.s have ' left the ranks of serrfce, and with : few or no new recruits up to that : time, cur farm power prcblem will probably take .on a different aspect. Celts cf good breeding, raised cn the farm, are usually the most satisfactory satis-factory replacements. They entail very small cash outlay and can it properly grown en most farms with- j cur atpreciahle expense. The ir i worth cantooi :e measured by tbeir r reseat i sale value, but should "re an-.' ticipated from the available n.gures of the. horse pj.-pulstier and ages of the present and an outlook of snptly j and requirements f:ur to six years i hence. |