Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-14
EFFORTS BEING PUT FORTH TO
ENCOURAGE BREEDING OF
LIGHT ANIMALS.
WAR WOULD FIND COUNTRY
FACING DANGEROUS DEFICIENCY
Bosr War Drained United States Of
Breeding Animals and Automobile
Has Made Equsstrianisr Less Popu-
Ia-Profit Assured to Farmers Who
Raise SaddIers For Market.
Especial Correspondence


Washington, May IA II congress
does as the war department and the
department OF agriculture are urging
it to do. it will make provision in the
agricultural appropriation bill 1or eA-
periments in the breeding Of horses Tor
military purposes. Facts were recently
laid before the senate committee on
agriculture which show in striking
fashion the decline in this country of
the quick moving ana fast driving
horse and riding horse. These types
OF animals are showing remarkable
tendency to decline in numbers. while
their places are being taken by the
slow moving draft animal. useless lot
cavalry purposes and not servicea Die
for military service generally.
Lieut.. Col. D. S. Stanley. deputy
o,arrerr,aster general of the army. ana
George NJ. Rommel. chief of the animal
husban6ry division of the bureau Oh
animal industry. formerly OF Iowa, re-
Gently urged on the senate commi'tee
the inheritance of congress tax
eress taking action that VIII pre-
vent the disappearance "f the pes'
types of riding and driving horses Al
rent;on was called to the fact the
Euronean nations are looking keenis
to this question
War Would Find Deficiency.
Lieutenant Colonel Stanley showed
tina, if this country should engage IN
var win a great power it would be
almost Impossible TO get enough fo'
for RI. cavalry and other arms OF the
military, service 1t is strange iae'
tina, while the census shows there arg
hon, "a 600 900 horses in TINS couIiti ;
the percentage of those well Fsieo to'
,ba cavalry is small and. whlie lhe
AMY uses about 1000 horses year al
ordinary peace times. il Is not easy W
20. s,st. class cavalry horses even 10
that limited number.
when i, is considered that IN the
c;,,;, war in the closing months tne
own. ysad I'D 500 horses day ana ih
.ha single YEAR ending June SO. lso4'
tho federal government purchased iee'
-rs horses for the armies. ii Is easy 10
SEP what would happen if grea. cam,
,,ins were needful today. Coiohe'
s..I., called the committees atten-
49,. - these figures and emphasized
- f.c+ they we're not phenomenal
s;nce in the Boer var, in the Napoieo,'-
and other great conflicts the
fo, horses had been enormous.
Heavy Drain During soer war.
80: as was shown by both Colo
-, STANLEY and Mr. Rommel one OF
~ reasons why the supply oil gooo
no
,,a,,ntrv is doubtless the heaE! oe
49, ,a shipments of American
horses 10 South Africa in the ooe.
war. The country has not recover g"
from that drain &c
The growing use OF the auton,o'
another obstacle in the way OF ueseiop
n,ent of good riding and driving ani-
mails Besides, there is gross ma
lion among American morse owner
and farmers to the breeding Oh seoo
animals for riding and DRIVING Pui
,,oses. The draft animal receives inocn
The more attention
Some idea of how many horses war
would call for may be given from the
fact. as cited by Colonel Stanley, 'has
rFrange on mobilization OF her army
would require at once 4s3.ooo horses'
Germany 100000 horses and Great
Bri,ain $4,000 horses Should the
United states become involved IN
var with Mexico. involving as it would
liberal use Of cavalry. the demand Tor
horses would be heavy.
Good Commercial Proposition.
In a small way. the government Is
already doing something to encourage
the rearing Of military mounts at Fort
Collins. Colo. and in Vermont. Mr..
Romrnel has done good deal to pro-
mote the raising of Morgan horses. But
what both the war and agricultural
departments desire is to spread the
movement for breeding of good riding
animal. over the country at large, to
get breeding associations to take the
matter UP and cooperate with the gov
eminent and to restore the best types
Of light horses, the thoroughbred. the
standard bred, the Morgan, the Ken
,ucky saddlers and others to the place
IF prominence they once occupied. 1t
is felt by the experts that there is not
only need for this from a military and
animal husbandry standpoint but tina.
as commercial proposition it is a
good thing for farmers and others who
raise horses. to give attention to.