Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1917 — Many Thousands of Horses and Mules Are Used in War. [ARTICLE]

Many Thousands of Horses and Mules Are Used in War.

Despite the fact that the great war is being waged largely by means of mechanical devices, horses and mules have played an important part in it. Up to the present time, says Popular Science Monthly, 920,000 horses and 330,000 mules have., been sent to the theater of war from the United States. The value of the horses which have been exported is 194,000,000, and of mules $66,000,000. The number of mules being sent to the war is increasing from year to year. The sagacity of the mule makes him very valuable in war work. Most of the horses and mules shipped from this country go directly to France. Others are sent to Great Britain and Canada and a few to some of the other European countries.