Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — House Still Indispensable. [ARTICLE]

House Still Indispensable.

Owners and breeders of thoroughbred horses for racing and other purposes insist that the horse still is an indispensable national asset. Notwithstanding the enormous number of motor vehicles now used in warfare, the> claim that the British government has purchased considerably mors than one million horses and a quarter of a million mules since, the beginning of the European conflict.