The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-26
FARMERS URGED TO
RAISE MORE HORSES
FARMERS ARE ADVISED TO BUY
WESTERN RANGE HORSES
DEMAND INCREASES

Increased production of good
horses is the great need at present
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll Horse company
of New York, one of the largest
firms dealing in horses in the east,
state that they sold more draft
horses for city use in the first six
similar period for many years, and
could have disposed of many more
had the supply been available. A. M.
Ernst. general manager of the COM
pany, when interviewed on Friday,
July 18th, said of the situation in the
east:
eve have enjoyed an unusually
good trade this year City users of
transportation are swinging back to
big draft horses as the cheapest,
most reliable and most efficient
motive power for all heavy trans
portation within the working radius
of a horse, despite the increase in
the cost of feed, which has been for
midable during the last year,
ssCity users ARE also coming to
realize that for all haulS, no matter
what distance, where frequent stops
are involved, as in delivering groc-
cries, ice, milk or other supplies furn-
ished to customers on regular routes,
horses are the only economical haul
ing power The trade is gaining.
our great problem today is to supply
that trade. Good horses are becom-
ing increasingly scarce and prices
have been higher this season that we
have ever known. Heavy draft
teams have been bringing from eight
to twelve hundred dollars per pair,
but if they go much higher, the bal
ance of favor will be liable to swing
over to motor trucks. There is
good profit to farmers in raising
draft geldings to bring S325 to $4oo
on the farm, yet we cannot get
enough of that type.
s"The market is here and will con-
tinue as long as the supply is any
where near adequate. l know that
about ten central west states,-Ohlo.
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, North and South Da-
kota and Nebraska,-produce ninety
per cent of all the good draft horses
that eventually find ther way into
city use, but our buyers in the MISS
issippi valley report that farmers
haven't bred their mares during the
last four years, and but few are IN q
position to sell any heavy draft
animals.
ssInthe past, good farms had young
stock coming on, and could and did
sell their mature mares and geldlngs
hardened and suitable for city use.
Today. on account of the fact that
no Young horses are coming on TO
take the place of these older ones,
thev cannot spare the horses seven
and eight years old. 1t is a great
handicap to our trade.
sThe practical thing to do to meet
the immediate situation, is to follow
the suggestion of Wayne Dinsmore,
secretary of the Horse Association Of
America, who advises all central
west farmers to buy good grade
western horses three or four years
old this fall and sell the older farm
stock. These western horses, raised
in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and
western states, carry three or four
crosses of draft blood, and mature in
the range states between fourteen
and fifteen hundred pounds. How
ever, ifshipped to corn belt farms and
worked there during their fourth and
fifth years, with liberal feed, they
mature at sixteen to seventeen hum
dred pounds. The corn belt farms |
will benefit doubly because they will
be able to sell their old horses be-
fore any material depreciation sets |
in, and they will also gain in the in !
crease in value of the young western
horses purchased as 3 or year olds
and grown out to increased size and
usefulness"