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Show COUNTY AGENT ITEMS Heavy Demand Seen for Work Horses on Utah Farms With a steady decrease in state and national horse population and with the loss of some 1600 horses last summer and fall, due to the ravages of encephalomyelitis (brain fever), the need for good draft horses in Utah is extremely acute. Utah is well adapted to the production pro-duction 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 13 per cent in numbers since 1918 ami, with the added loss due to disease, there is every indication of a heavy demand for good farm horses for several years to come. In a recent address, Wayne Dins-more, Dins-more, secretary of the Horse and Mule association of America, indicated indi-cated that at present of the total horse population 85 per cent are at work on farms, 5 per cent are at work in cities or other non-agri cultural work, 3 per cent are in use under the saddle and there are only 7 per cent too young to work. There are several good horse breeders and dealers in the state who can supply purebred draft stallions stal-lions of desirable type and conforma-mation conforma-mation at the present time. Among thee 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 Ogden and Salt Lake union stock yards. Farmers interested in producing colts which will develop into desirable desir-able farm horses should make plans now to have good, sound mares to breed during the spring of 193!. Mares of fairly blocky or drafty conformation con-formation weighing in the neighborhood neighbor-hood 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 I A shortage of good draft horses in Beaver county in the not distant j future is very evident. We find that many times more horses are dying from natural causes each year than we have draft colts born; and the greater part of the horses being used now are beyond the age of greatest usefulness. We are advised that an outside buyer has been in the county this week to get a number of draft horses, but it is not known how mary were taken out. We have some good draft stallions stal-lions available in the county, and it is evident that good draft horses will be in demand four or five years hence. |