The New York herald., 1921-02-20
SEEN AND HEARD
IN HORSE MARKET
2,5OO,0OO Horses in Cities and
TosDns of United States.

Inc new census will show that ~ nav
cent Of all the horses and mules now
~ the United States are on farms, while
the other 10 per cent. are In cities and
towns. This means that something like
-'0Vo'vVJ horses are used for commercial
ana pleasure purposes. as compared
with 225o0GO for agricultural purposes.
More than 80 per cent. Of all horses ana
mules are raised In the ten States OF
ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Iowa, Missouri.
Kansas, Oklahoma. Nebraska, North
Dakota and South Dakota. New York
and New England no longer produce
one-fourth of the horses they use.
For the first time in years the mule
is the most unstable animal In the
horse mariets of the country. Frank
Mckay. a Western shipper to Fiss.
Doerr & Carroll's auction sales, said
yesterday that the demand for mules
in the West had declined with the price
OF cotton and that nobody is now buy
ing them. Some OF the big dealers and
feeders Of Southern mules have lost
fortunes in the market In the last few
months, he says. Mr.. Mckay, who now
represents Hull Brothers of Des Moincs.
has sold eleven carloads of Iowa horses
in the Monday and Thursday auctions at
F'iss, poerr & Carrolps since the begin
ming oy the year He will sell n big con-
signment tomorrow which includes ten
riding horses.
w. ]. McKinty, who sold a car lot of
big, seasoned workers on Monday at the
Twenty-fourth street mart, Is now n full
fledged Virginia planter. He was the
busiest salesman in the old Bulls Head
district fifteen years ago, when identi-
fled with Fiss, Doerr & Carroll. willie"
has been operating on his own hook In
Kansas and Missouri since 1912 and
lately retired.
A series of weekly horse auctions will
be held at Durland's Riding Academy
this season. beginning on Thursday
evening. March 3. Saddle horses, hunt
ers and harness horses will be offered
for various owners who may wish to
dispose Of them.
L. r. Acker. once prominent In the
Parkway Driving Club and now in the
theatrical business in Canada. has pur-
chased OF A. Q. Cornwell Mineola. l.. l.,
the four-year-old trotting gelding Peter
Verde, that won heat in :16 at the
Nassau Driving Club matlnees last
season.
Richard Newton, Jr. has purchased
Of Leslie b. Keifer the gray saddle horse
Grand Parade that won at the Riding
Club on Thursday evening. lie was
first In his class at the New York spring
Horse Show last spring, soon after NJ.
b. Newcomb sold him TO Mr.. Keifer.
Surplus horses from some OF the big
industrial and commercial concerns in
Jersey City made up an attractive lot
OF offerings at the Bergen Horse Com
panys weekly auction on Wednesday.
The Communipaw avenue stables were
crowded with buyers.
A. NJ. Stein & Co., the oldest dealers
IN Brooklyn, report an improving de-
mand for heavy draft and farm horses
such as they sell at their Washington
street stable
Waller e Potters had a carload or
fresh western work horses I'm the regu-
lar Tuesday auction at their Rutledge
street stables in Brooklyn last week
Fair prices were obtained for them.
Heilbrunn & Kahn OF West End ave-
nue. and sixtieth street have their
stables filled with big. rugged work
horses, fresh. from the West. Dave
Kahn says the market is on the mend.
George Watson's Paradise Farm. az
Teancck. ~ j.. Is attracting many vis-
TORS these days. Tho largest stock OF
saddle horses III the East is there,
n Kaufman & Sons arc woll siSed
"a supply the demand for saddles, mar
ncas and horse goods al their now
building Tn Division street.