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Show PASSING OUT It isn't hard for older citizens of Milford to recall the predictions pre-dictions made about the time the auto appeared that the new method of transportation spelled the doom of the horse. Happily, that prediction did not come true. For a good many years the horse remained in demand as a beast of burden, and the price of horseflesh showed no decline. Now, however, comes a horse and mule census that throws new light on the subject. It shows the number of farm animals is rapidly decreasing and reveals that if this continues it will be but a few years until the horse and mule have passed almost completely out of the picture. The number num-ber of horses in the United States, the census shows, dropped from 16,401,000 in 1925 to 11,838,000 in 1935, a brief 10-year period. The cause is attributed not to the passenger auto, as old-timers predicted, but to the modem motorized machinery ma-chinery that is constantly finding its way to the farming sections sec-tions of every state in the union. As time goes on this will become more noticeable. Whether it will be economical or not, and whether it is cause for regret or satisfaction is not easily said, without fear of starting an argument. But the fact remains, all argument to the contrary, that horses and mules are passing out of the picture in this country and that the trend toward motorization motoriza-tion of all kinds of farm machinery is fast pushing the noble old animals closer to the soap factories and the fertilizer plants. |