Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1920 — HORSES TO RETAIN THEIR PLACE IN THE SUN [ARTICLE]

HORSES TO RETAIN THEIR PLACE IN THE SUN

“The time will never come when we can get along without horses on the farm. They will furnish ninetenths of all farm power and will continue to do so,” said Harvey Smith, of Boswell, president of the Indiana draft horse breeders’ association, at the annual meeting which opened in Indianapolis Wednesday. “Due to the propaganda against horses, many farmers and others have not raised colts the last year or two and today there is a real shortage of good horses. We have plenty of culls and inferior kinds but not nearly enough good ones to go around.” E. S. Akin, of Syracuse, N. Y., an importer, dealer and breeder, said that he had found a big shortage in Indiana, < lowa and Illinois, the three leading draft horse producing states.