Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — FEAR SHORTAGE OF HORSES [ARTICLE]

FEAR SHORTAGE OF HORSES

American Army Officers May Suggest That Sale to Belligerents Be Checked. London. —American army officers who are watching the military situation in Europe are concerned over the prospect of America’s supply of horses being depleted by the enormous exportations to the belligerents, this creating a dangerous condition regarding American army requirements. The wholesale and indiscriminate shipments of mares is regarded particularly as dangerous. It is probable that some suggestion will be made for the nonexportation of mares, possibly encouraging the owners to keep them by the payment of some government bounty, as In England and France. France recently ordered 150,000 horses from America. New contracts will be made the first of the year, and England also Is making large purchases in America and Canada. The situation threatens to be far worse than after the Poor war, when America’s horse industry was paralyzed. *.-