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Meanwhile American horse buyers are keeping up an old-fashioned 

 and useless habit in importing so many horses when they can buy the best 

 in their own country. Chief Rommel, of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, 

 says there is no equal to the American horse anywhere in the world. He 

 says: 



WHAT ROMMEL "Horse breeding is constantly improving. The 

 SAYS farmers are going in for raising draft horses; and 



for good ones there is an eager market at prices 

 which would have astounded the farmer a decade ago. 



KENTUCKY "The most intelligent breeding is being done in Ken- 

 HOORAY! tucky. There they have had long experience and the 



farmers understand the principles back of the work. 

 Practically no draft horses, however, are to be found in that region. 



CORN DIET "The best draft horses in this country are bred 



FOR DRAFT BREEDS in what is known as the corn belt, which runs 



from Kansas and Nebraska, on the west, to 

 Ohio on the east, and of which Iowa and Illinois are the center. 



THE HORSE "Figures show that horses are not diminishing in fact, 

 STILL KING there are more horses in this country than ever. If the 

 motor car has driven out the saddle and carriage horse 

 generally, why is it that these are higher in price than before the motor 

 car came? 



"There is a better market than ever for the good horse and a poorer 

 than ever for the poor one." 



The Evolution of a Horse 



