Show 00 0 HOUSES HORSES STILL ILAVE HAVE important PLACE ON Is the horse coming back A tew few years ago the idea dea seemed to be prevalent that on the farm as well as on the city street the day was not tar far distant when the horse would be merely a sot sort ol of romantic memory to be filed away with the cradle as a harvesting implement or the flail at as a threshing device th the present period of lowering and and general general instability however has led to a general reconsideration ot of past opinions and it begins to appear that the staid old work team Is due tor for a new rise to popular tavor favor both for city and farm power one ot of the first broadsides broad sides favoring horse transportation in preference to motor drawn vehicles comes strangely enough from an organization of lot city business men in the shape of a small folder by john D houston chairman of the outbound delivery costs committee of the national wholesale grocers association the information contained in this folder was compiled from the answers to a questionnaire sent by mr wayne dinsmore Diu smore secretary of the horse association of america and a recognized authority on the subject mr dinsmore presents some highly favorable statistics encouraging cou raging the more extensive use of horse power for drayage purposes in general lie he concludes that the only condition under which the argument is distinctly in favor of the truck is where the haul is long or where the demand Is for quick ser service he points out that the latter argument will bear qualification due to the tact fact that traffic regulations and congestion in cities cause numerous delays and force the driver to travel so slowly that he arrives little sooner with a truck than he would with a horse drawn vehicle three points of superiority are enumerated as follows 1 low initial cost A team and wagon with 5 ton capacity represent an outlay of 1500 A truck for sim liar capacity GOOD four ot of tho the former ran can lo bo 10 had for or the price of one of the latter 3 2 light rate of 0 depreciation A truck at 20 per cent means a yearly cost of 1200 A 1500 team and wagon at 16 23 2 3 per cent Is a loss ot of but the difference will pay for the operation ot of the latter tor for most ot of tour four months 3 small cost coat of license tee fee and liability insurance in this respect the horse equipment shows shown a yearly saving ot of possibly which would pay tor for its operation for or six bis or seven weeks on the farm a similar change of feeling seems to bo be taking place tho the tractor fad as it has come to be called by many proved disastrous dia in many cases as the numerous abandoned boned tractors or tractors idle th tho greater part of tho the year testify few tractors are being used for field work in canada according to F it auld deputy commissioner of agriculture of the province of saskatchewan he declares that this condition Is a result of cold blooded consideration of facts and that the tanners farmers are using horse power because they have round it more satisfactory and more profitable arp are complaining that good draft teams are hard bard to purchase at any price and suggest that farmers are overlooking a real business opportunity port unity in falling failing to produce more horses for the market |