The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-24
THE HORSE NOT EXTINCT

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THE HORSE NOT EXTINCT.
Tractor statesmen have been wont
to tell us how the tractor and the
truck have superseded horses and that
But the horse, although he has no
press agent, no one holds horse
schools" to boost his sales and mil
lions of dollars are not spent in ad-
yertising him, is still mans best and
most faithful friend.
Without horses farming in the Pa
louise country would go back so years.
Ninety per cent of the farms would
cease to be cultivated if there were
to be an epidemic to take off all our
horses. Not one farm in SO is today
farmed with tractors and our child
ren's children will still see the horse
Unlike the tractor the horse replen-
ishes the supply which is never ex-
hausted if care is used. A good brood
and work mare will raise fine colt
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will live on much that would be vast
ed and they are always ready for work.
When the mud is SO deep or the snow
is drifted so badly that motor cars and
trucks and tractors cannot be used,
'1Old Dobbin" is there ready and
willing to do the work that can be
done as we'll by no other animal and
no other machine.
Good horses are in demand today.
They will continue to be in demand
for 100 years. Tractors, trucks and
automobiles will also be in demand
and will be used in greater quantities,
but there is work that nothing but a
horse can do. Just imagine a man
mounting a tractor or truck or an
automobile, or even motorcycle and
chasing cattle over the plains and
canyons and through the timber.
The sale of nine four-year-o mares
reported in this issue, for s17O0, shows
that farmers have no thought of sub
stituting tractors for horses.
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The people of Moscow bid goodbye
to the scores of visitors who have
been here for Farmers and House
keepers week and for the tractor
school and hope these visitors may
come again. We are glad they have
been here and have seen our town
and our school and become acquainted
with our people. They. have gained
much, but the citizens of Moscow
have also gained much by the presence
of these visitors. Here's hoping they
may come back next year and bring
more of their neighbors with them.
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Two years ago we were bowling be-
cause of the high prices due to the
war, which was blamed for every price
advance The war has been over for
more than IA months and prices of all '
were higher in December
than they have ever been. During
that month % of the leading commod- T
tiles advanced from one to 10 per cent |
over November prices and from 80 to
80 per cent over December four years
before. The war cannot be blamed for
these high prices. There is just one
excuse and that is profiteerng.
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With potatoes selling at from four +
TO five cents pound the man who a
Neglected to dig his potatoes last fall
and knows that more than so per cent
II his crop has been frozen and ruin
I'd, can think of those "saddest words S
# tongue or pen, it might have BEEN" p
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The three daily papers of Winnipeg,
y&nada, after several days suspension
"A account of the print paper famine,
ave begun publishing one-page bull
etin editions, yet Canada was sup
'csed to be the wood-pulpiest portion
t the North American continent p
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,ensely relieved at the decision the al
|utch government has made concern y
lg his extradition, but probably no Is
lore than David Lloyd George
ewiston Tribune.
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