Show 1 Gasoline r rotor Motor Start Starts Another Farm Problem I I When Feed Unnecessary Much d Land Released as ac Horses and Mules Discarded First First Decrease in Acreage Since War Shown in 7 1 t I 1925 J Says Federal Report J I L I I By hg JI X COLF Special Correspondent or of The IlIC Standard 1926 Press WASHINGTON Sept The 4 i Tho oil well Is adding to the tho perplex perplex- perplexities lUes of or agriculture Much ruch of oC the power formerly d by ani- ani animal mal mats fed with corn oats and other Is furnished t b by motors moron whose drink gasoline to set gH energy f the th In tho the num ber of or hon horses and mules both In cities and on farms farma there thero ther Is being released millions million of acres of or land otherwise would be b pro pro pro- pro dicing feed teed for Cor these beasts of bUrden 1 This Is one no ne of the tho het disclosed by a 11 preliminary on chan changes es In the tho utilization utilization tion of or land In tho the United States 24 24 a study of 1325 1925 culture culture census with comparisons avail avail copies of or f which were made able by the th department of or agri- agri agricUlture erl- erl culture this week eek swung minx upward In production dur dur- lie dur-lie lag the war to a point of or abnor abnor abnor- high Increase In acreage harvested only to fall rail heavily lath Ia 1 tile the war post ost or period For Por the first time In the tho history ry of ot the tho country the th agriculture census of ot 13 19 showed a 11 a decrease In crop acre acre- acreage acreage acreage age ageThEN ThEN COMES Sr ISI Crop acreage In and il 1 1 acre acres population per pr percent percent cent In the tho ten years 18 1809 1309 It It Increased acres s and population 15 In the decade 1903 1313 1903 1929 1919 while In the five dve yar nu years be between bo- bo between tween 1319 cr acreage dEcreased about about about- acres and the th population nearly 8 1 per pcr cent What this means Is aptly cx- cx ex by by pressed 0 O Eo 1 U Bakery Baker economIc econom- econom economIc Ie Ic analyst tho of-tho of or tho bureau of or 11 ag- ag af economics who pro pro- pre pared d the preliminary In Inthe these t I I 1 It It is sl If It the same samo rate of or Increase In crop acre acre- i harvested relative to the in increase tn- tn crease r iso In I population the thet t decade eade 1303 por 10 r cent ent In- In increase In Increase crease In crop acreage age and 21 per rent In crease In population had continued through ugh the period or of 1919 l 03 19 there thero would hay have been acres of or crop crops bar har harvested vested t In 1919 T TH I Is Ie acres acre less leu than the tho 1919 1319 sus cu u sus Indicates It if tt 1303 the J 18 1909 1899 rate of or rain fain aIn relative to popUlation had continued through to tl 1924 1324 there thero wOuld have been acres In that year car or orI orl I l more moro than the tho census reported I HS AHEAD UC In other worce owing to the extraordinary demands of o the war the th of o crop land was Of over nine years f i what hod oen cn th pr s rate rale of or expansion on relative to In Increase In- In Increase crease In population but In 13 1221 0 Ine partly to the tho agricultural depression lon sinco 1921 1321 and partlY to changes chances o occurring In consumption consumption tion lion the tho th acreage had dror dropped years arl behind hat shat It would haye have Been een It f I the tho rate rale of ot from 1111 1899 to 1303 1003 had haC h Continued Despite th the five fhe per cent de- de decrease d crease In crop land harvested however ner the th analysis points ou tHat the th acreage e necessary to pro produce duce duee the tho exported farm t- t WAS almost as large larg In tho the perlo period by the tho 19 1925 3 agricultural census as In that prior to tl the tho IZO 1920 census Stated otherwise some SOUK fewer acres Yere required re- re required required to supply the demands or of orthe o the th tlc m market In the th later period despite del steadily increasing population hORSES AN AND There arc are various explanation of or this several severn I being touched up upon up- up upon on In the report Hut But a one Is the tho fact that horses and mules era cre decreasing In the 11 ed ed States Stats relieving acreage tot form formerly erly necessary to sustain these an animals an- an anImals animals The Tho 1925 IUS farm census cenus plu plus statistics and estimates for Cor cities shows how a decrease of or 1 06 per percent cent In horses horse and mules between and 1925 l A As the feed con con- consumed by horses borscs And nd mules re- re requIred required re required for Its production about 25 Ii per cent of the tho crop op crop acres acres or 90 90 acres In 1 1919 19 the report how It It appears that th the per cent decrease In the number or of horses hore and an l mules to be bo ted fed would release tor for other uses or cause CAUSO to lie Idle about acres This last figure Is near three fourths of or the amount b by which tho the acreage In crop crops In IOU 1924 fell tell b lo lothe the tho age acreage would have been In crops had the increase from 1899 to 1909 rela- rela relative relative tive to the Increase In III population population tion continued without lion tion There have havo been Important In crops regional also also In naturi but but that Is another story Horses and mule mules have hav decreased ed cd 13 12 per cent on farms In cit cities ies les the tho decrease Is more mor than do 0 doper per cent The number n of colts coils be- be beIng being Ine be-Ine I Ing raised Is only oly about halt half sut- sut to replace the ho mature maturo ani aN animals an- an mats mals which die So this phase othe ot of the farm problem what problem what to do with crop crop acreage formerly used lse l for production prod production production-is Is Is likely to even ven more moro pronounced 00 00 |