Show horse holding its own despite machine age in the arts of peace pe a ce os its well its as war the horse remains a bland by despite his virtual disappearance from the highway farmers tire are learning that small tracts may be more effectively cultivated with horsepower than with tractor that it Is easier to raise feed than to buy gasoline there Is a definite connection here with our present economic impasse the united states department 0 of estimates that tile the number dumber of horses and mules has fallen in the last decade it estimates that a work ln horse consumes annually 70 bushels of oats 15 to 20 bushels of corn one to one and a halt tons of hay and one acre of pasture to io produce these for all the van dished animals would require acres ain an area now dow largely used for other purposes the department estimates that this acreage would yield tales bales ol of cotton or az bushels of wheat or bushels of 0 corn since the country la Is suffering from alleged overproduction over oter production in the presence of reduced consumption in III all these crops the reduced reduce use of oc the horse has a wide bearing on the whole farm problem all this Is one of our sacrifices to the machines dominance the horse on the whole seems to be doing pretty well at surviving in the face 1 of mechanical competitors st loula louis rost dispatch i |