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Show AUTO FAD AFFECTING DEMAND FOR HORSES. "' The market for fine horses is being injured by the strong demand de-mand that has sprung up for automobiles in all parts of the country, according to Harry Fairfax, who has a national reputation as a breeder of horses. "This vogue pf the automobile," he says, "was 1 not felt to any serious extent by the horsemen for a long while, but at last it has begun to create a falling off in the demand, and right now tho owners are wondering when the depression will end. I believe be-lieve that it is not anything more than a transient condition, and that the public will go back to its old love, the horse. The reason is plain there can be no real affection for a machine, no abiding interest in an inanimate thing. Nor is there any individuality in automobiles ; they look alike. The grand lady in a $10,000 auto car cannot be distinguished dis-tinguished from a parvenu in one of similar style. A magnificent pair of harness horses cannot thus easily be duplicated; there is almost al-most as much individuality to a horse as among human beings -and when one has the ownership of the right kind of animal; he has something some-thing to love and cherish." |