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not only doing the work that is also done by horses, but they are doing 

 work which the horse cannot do. In other words, the motor has to a 

 large extent created its own necessity. There is, on the other hand, 

 a vast amount of horse work of various kinds which cannot be done 

 by motors. The horse and the motor each occupy fields of their own, 

 the margins of which overlap to some extent, and here competition be- 

 tween the horse and motor is keen. The carriage horse and roadster 

 have felt this competition most. 



Many large business firms have sold their draft horses and installed 

 motor trucks, only to discover that the short haul may be made more 

 economically with horses, and they have therefore reinstated horse 

 equipment along with their motor trucks. Farmers have found that 

 tractor manufacturers are over-enthusiastic regarding the tractor's 

 ability to displace the horse upon the farm. The horse's place in the 

 realm of sport is undisturbed by the automobile. Saddle horses, in- 

 cluding the hunter and polo pony, are in good demand, and racing in 

 harness and under saddle continues to prosper throughout the countrj\ 



Classification of the breeds. — The breeds of horses may be classi- 

 fied according to type as follows, mention being made of the place of 

 origin and of the number of registered purebred animals of each breed 

 in the United States on January 1, 1920, as reported by the census: 



Type Breed Place of origin Number 



fPercheron France 70,613 



JBelgian Belgium 10,838 



J Shire England 5,617 



• • • IClydesdale Scotland 4,248 



Suffolk England (M 



[French Draft ^ France 2,964 



(Hackney England 564 



Cleveland Bay England ( ' ) 



Yorkshire Coach England ( M 



French Coach France ( M 



German Coach Germany 697 



fStandardbred United States 4,021 



Roadster Type { Morgan United States ( « ) 



[Orloff Trotter Russia ( M 



f American Saddle Horse United States 1,459 



Saddle Type {Thoroughbred England 3,801 



[Arabian Arabia ( * ) 



[Shetland Shetland Islands ( M 



Ponies ]Welsh Wales (M 



[Hackney England . (» ) 



All other 15,718 



Draft Type. 



Total 120,540 



1 In the United SUtes the term "French Draft" includes all animals registered in the National 

 Register of French Draft Horses. All breeds of French draft horses are eligible to registry in this stud 

 book. These are the Percheron, Boulonnais, Nivernais, Ardennais, and Bretonnais. However, the Per- 

 cherons have their own stud book, the Percheron Stud Book of America, and nearly all registered pixre- 

 bred Percherons in this country are recorded in it. Horses registered in the Percheron book are Percherons; 

 those registered in the other stud book are French Draft. 



' Not separately reported. 



