Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-19
THE HORSE is STILL HERE
A Great and increasing Industry in
Spite of the Auto
mobiles.

The automobile enthusiasts are still
dreaming, talking and writing Of 1.-THE
| horseless age.'' For clean city," this
has been the burden Of their song for
! ten years, and horses have increased 6.OOO =
600 head, and we now have 81 ,OOOCsJ farm
and city horses, with a s., 800, 1900 valua-
tlon, and higher prices than ever before
$25 to $500 for good draft horses, and several
$1,000 teams are in our cities The auto
mobile or mechanical fraction has neither
helped nor hurt the horse.
The railroads and every form of machin-
cry have called for more horses to do the
increasing work., and when the horse is
banished from the streets OF our cities
the great volume of business must cease
and the freight trains will rust on the side
tracks. ~,....
Statistics show that only $4,000 automo-
biles and mechanical traction cars were
made in the United States in 1909, and per-
| haps 100000 feF-lslO, which, at $1,000 a car
is only $1OO,OOOOOO. ...
France makes about. ,............. $1,000 ears
Great Britain .........t............ 10000 oars
Germany ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 25OO cars
CHlteu 0tdteS 500; ."''''''''''''' lVVVVV cars
Total cars for. 1910 .E"...... 225.oOo
Total valuation. u;.n.s......s2 55, 100000 .
The 100000 horses in Illinois alone are
valued at $3.50 OO0,0OO. which is more than all
| of the automobiles in the world. Horse
breeding is the most IMPORTANT and most
profitable industry of, Illinois and the ma
ton and the farmers cannot supply the in
creasing demand for more horses and better
horses, regardless of price, for eur Amer
lean city markets and great, export
trade for all Europe eager for good Amer
lean horses. Ro yr -r u-.e. .---..
Think of our American horse industry
of $500 600, OO6, 81 90 900 900 more than all
our cattle, sheep end hogs, and 100000, 90
more than ALL ouYupeteaI er6pse There is
no comparison aF.salT with : the $lOO oOo, 900
automobile industry Our great horses IN
creased in value, last year, over $3.50, 900, 0OO,
three times the valhe OF all the automobiles
made in America.
American railroads are using 21sO,0OO
freight cars, which must be loaded and
unloaded chiefly by good draft horses. The
auto trucks would he welcomed TO carry
part of this burden shat is increasing faster
than we can produce horses to handle it,
but they give practically no help to over
burdened horses, and the automobile
doesn't handle freight, so II is up to the
farmers to raise more horses; and to raise
larger and better Ehorses to haul larger
loads; to load and unload 100000 freight
! cars every day is a work no other nation
can accomplish. -"
Weed out the inferior horses and breed
better horses to Save better farm mares
and better geldfngs for the market. The
horse breeder is d good thing, but the
farmer who can weed his horses will i'm
prove each year in raising better horses
that will sell att better prices.
High grade draft horses, bred to best
pure bred stations grow into more money
and are the best farm teams in the world
The Eelding colts with good size and type,
are the highest priced grade stock of the
farm. The high grade fillies and mares
are worth double as much for breeding