THE NEW EARTH 



horses on farms, for example, from 1850 to 

 1900, increased very nearly 300 per cent. Not- 

 withstanding the fear of many that the horse 

 would give way before the bicycle, the motor- 

 cycle and the automobile, the horses in the 

 United States number at present more than 

 twenty-one millions, while their value by the 

 last census was over a billion dollars. On the 

 Chicago market, horses, from 1899 to 1904, 

 increased in value from ten to thirty -five 

 dollars per head. 



It is of interest to note that the national 

 government, under congressional appropria- 

 tion, has begun the work of establishing an 

 American carriage-horse. A series of breeding 

 experiments is now under way, whose object 

 is to produce an entirely new horse, so to 

 speak, — one which shall be peculiarly adaptable 

 to the needs of Americans. It is intended that 

 this horse shall be the foundation of a race 

 which shall stand entirely independent of 

 foreign breeds. 



In every department of animal husbandry, 

 efforts are being put forth to strengthen the 

 older types. It is practically in the period of 

 the New Earth that swine-breeding has reached 



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