The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-12
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SEEN AND HEARD
IN HORSE MARKET
Auction Prices FaUoring the
Winter Buyers.

With truckm1l idle and many lines OF
business almost at a standstill during
the period of readjustment. prices for
work horses are unusually favorable TO
buyers these days in the Monday and
Thursday auctions at Fiss, Doerr & Car
rolls. Market experts say the thin ones,
and this means most of the seasoned
horses consigned to the sales, are fully
% per cent cheaper than they were last
spring or last year. Country dealers and
feeders are taking advantage of market
conditions to buy literally for this time
OF year. and a good many of the thin
horses are being shipped away from the
city to be wintered and returned TO the
New York market when conditions are
more favorable early next spring.
The census Of 1920 is the first In
history showing a decrease in the num-
Ter of horses and mules in the United
States. Wayne Dinsmore. secretary of
the Horse Association of America, esti-
mates that complete returns will show
loss of about 100000 on farms and
something more than 1000 900 in cities
and towns. This seems like a big drop
in ten years. and yet there are still about
90. 200, 600 horses in the country, together
with some 100000 mules
At the recent annual meeting Of the
Horse Association in Chicago the con-
sensus among trucSmen and other large
users of work horses in transportation
seemed to be that where speed Is of
great Importance and where long hauIs
without frequent stops are involved
motor vehicles will supplant horses. but
for short hauls, and not so short at
that. where economy of operation is the
first thing to be considered the horse
beats any mechanical motive power yet
invented.
Thursdays sales at Fiss. Doerr &
Carrolrs nowadays rival the Monday
auctions, and this week may take the
lead. A special consignment OF truck
horses and trucks from the ]. Fl. Law
renee Company of Hoboken will be one
of the attractions for buyers on this oc-
casion. In to-morrow's sale about fifty
fresh Western work horses are among
the offerings.
The Bergen Horse Company's weekly
auctions In Jersey City are attended
these days by quite a number of buyers
from as far South as Virginia. They
find a lot of useful shipping horses in
the Wednesday sales.
Waller & Potters had fifteen big brew
cry horses In their Tuesday auction last
week. Sales are held every Tuesday and
Friday at their Rutledge street mart in
Brooklyn.
George Watson of Paradise Farm,
Teaneck. n. j., is selling off his i'm
ported Irish hunters and saddle horses
preparatory to going abroad in January
with large shipment of trotters.
Godfrey Preece has just returned from
buying trip through the West He
picked up a lot of polo horses and a
brown saddle mare just under 1872
hands. by Highland Mcdonald, that
looks like a future champion.
William II. Strangs motor vans are
stlll busy moving valuable horses in and
about New York. Few dealers. ex-
hibitors or racing men nowadays ship
by rail unless the distance is 100 miles
or more.
/ NJ. b. Newcomb. who now has the only
sales stable north of Twenty-fourth
street, ia rounding out busy season in
the saddle and harness horse trade.
The work OF transforming the old Cen
trail Park Riding Academy into theatre
has been stopped by litigation. which
seeks to prevent the use OF the property
for such purpose.
Fiss Doerr Carroll will sell con-
signments of saddle and harness horses.
hunters. ponies and riding and driving
equipment at $50 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon In the regular Monday auction
at their Twenty-fourth street mart. The
sale OF work horses viii begin as usual
at 10 o'clock in the morning.