Show horse holding its own despite machine age in th arts of peace as well as war the horse remains a stand standby by despite his virtual disappearance from the highway farmers are learning that small tracts may be mole effectively cultivated with horse I 1 ower than with tractor that it Is easier to raise feed than to buy gaso una line chere Is a definite connection here with our present economic impasse the united states department of agriculture estimates that the num ber her of horses and mules has fallen 6 in the last decade it esti estl mates that a working horse consumes annually 70 bushels of oats 15 to 20 bushels of corn one to one and a halt half tons of hay and one acre of pasture to produce these for all the van dished animals would require acres an area now largely used for other purposes the department estimates that this acreage would yield balea bales of cotton op or bushels of wheat or bushels of corn since the country Is suffering from allege 1 over overproduction production in the presence ot of reduced consumption in all these crops the reduced use ot of the horse has a wide bearing hearing on the whole farm problem aim all this Is one of our sacrifices to the machine machines s dominance the horse on the whole seems to be doln doing 1 pretty well at surviving in the he fac ot of mechanical competitors st louis post dispatch |