Show LIVE I 1 ST OCK MOTOR AGE CAUSE OF FARMERS LOSS land to maintain animals used to produce food the ease speed and wide W ide range ot of travel resulting from the mo motor tor age are bringing disaster to the farmer according to wayne dinsmore 6 secretary of the horse association of america the reason Is that the automobile truck and tractor since 1000 have displaced or have fed ted from coming into existence a total ot of horses and mules nor is this all the displacement of these work animals an mals means that i acres ot of land the tha amount t that hat would have been required aired to maln main tain iraln such animals anlin als lias has been converted i to the production of food for man seriously depressing farm markets in 1000 mr dinsmore further points out there was one horse or mule for every persons in our total tota population I 1 ution now there Is but one horse or mule for every persons in our population the decline lie he declares has cost the farmer three markets namely lin mely the normal increase lit in demand for horses and mules the normal increase in de imling annd for hay and grain and the greater demand and higher prie tile farmer would be receding rec ehing for nil all 0 other th ier farm products sir dinsmore holds that it requires the product of four acres of fertile corn licit belt land or it its equivalent to maintain a city work horse and the product of two and a 11 halt acres of such land to maintain horses or mules on farms lie he believes that horses and mules 1 should be used wherever and whenever they will do the work as cheaply 1 and as efficiently as other forms form of power that is that they should tie he used ed f for 0 r all short haul hall frequent stop work rk 1 in cities and for all held field world on farms mr dinsmore declares that if horses or mules ire are used in five six eight nine ten or kvelve unit outfits on farms and are intelligently maln main tallied on oil pasture they are t hie lc client est most cf efficient iciest form of mot motive ve power to be had and lie adds n general gonci sil return to horse use ww will result ress it in the diversion of increasing acres acre ts to production of power instead of continuing in production of food of which chidi we have too great a surplus particularly with all other leading countries of the world increasing production of the same foodstuffs and competing against the american farmer |