Copyright. Underwood & Underwood. 
33 Horses and Mules on a Combined Harvester-Thresher in Palouse Country, Washington. 
Leaders Alone Driven with Lines, Others "Tied In and Bucked Back" 
A SQUARE DEAL 
WE HAVE heard much in recent days of what won the war. The dairy- 
men claim milk and its products maintained the vitality which held the 
morale of the allies. Beef producers point to the large consumption of 
beef by fighting men. Swine raisers do the same, and claim to excel beef 
producers in their contribution. Wheat growers claim theirs was the leading 
part in holding back starvation. All did their share; but back of them all, pro- 
ducing the grains and roughage that fed cattle and hogs, and the grains that fed 
mankind, were the horses of America. On every one of our six million farms they 
labored in the heat of the summer and the bitter cold of winter, that humanity 
might have food; and more than a million of them passed into military service, to 
do their part to make the world free. 
In peace and in war, the horse has been second only to man in the develop- 
ment of civilization. We have been so accustomed to his services that we have 
never recognized his economic importance. We have developed machinery to use 
his strength more freely, but we have given scant heed to the problem of enabling 
him to exert his powers more efficiently. 
The work reported here by Prof. White was initiated by the writer. It 
marks but the beginning of a more efficient use of the draft horse, in larger units, 
which will give him a square deal — something he has not had. We can learn to 
use the world's greatest motive power — the draft horse — with profit to ourselves 
and comfort to the horse — if we will but set ourselves patiently at the task of learn- 
ing to use these new hitches as well as we already use the two-horse team. 
We are now trying to make arrangements with a company in Chicago to pro- 
duce and sell these hitches, and to so advertise and promote them as to bring them 
rapidly into general use; for every set sold means increased appreciation of, and 
a wider, more stable market for, good draft horses. 
Parties desiring to order these hitches may direct their inquiries, for the time 
being, to the Percheron Society of America. They will be given careful atten- 
tion, and intending purchasers may be assured that their orders can be filled by 
March I 5th, if not sooner. WAYNE DINSMORE. 
