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because they wanted to do away with the 
breed that had done so much for the stur¬ 
dy Belgian farmer. A commission from 
Brussels was now searching this country 
for 2,000 Belgian mares in order to re¬ 
populate her farms, since less than 15 per 
cent of the animal population survived. 
The shortage of horses was appalling in 
England and Scotland, where less than 40 
per cent were intact. Prices had soared 
from .$250 to $750 for strictly working 
types, and geldings of modern type and 
weight often brought from $1,000 to 
$1,500 in public marts. Feed had also 
doubled and often trebled in price, while 
hay had advanced from $18 to $80 per ton 
and straw from $8 to $22 per ton. while 
shoeing and equipment of every sort, such 
as harness and wagons, were almost be¬ 
yond reason in cost and very scarce, too. 
No doubt the high cost of feed and forage 
abroad would limit shipments. He con¬ 
vinced his hearers that the war had cre¬ 
ated a brisk demand for horses, and that 
the American horse breeder should con¬ 
tinue to breed useful types that would 
always be in great demand. 
Wayne Dinsmore, of the Percheron So¬ 
ciety of America, speaking from the 
horseman’s standpoint on “Clearing the 
Way for the Draft Horse,” said, in part: 
“The competition of trucks and tractors 
has frightened thousands of farmers into 
a partial, or complete, discontinuance of 
horse breeding. Where it inhibited the 
breeding of mares of 1,200 lbs. or over to 
draft stallions this has been harmful. 
Where it stopped the use of small stal¬ 
lions. or the breeding of very small or de¬ 
cidedly inferior mares it has been a bene¬ 
fit. More good than harm has probably 
resulted, for we had a vast surplus of 
horses ranging from 1,000 to 1,400 lbs., 
and horses as a whole were being pro¬ 
duced more rapidly than demand ■war¬ 
ranted. Especially was this true of the 
smaller, inferior kinds. A surplus of in¬ 
ferior horses drags down the price on 
good ones, so that every man who is pro¬ 
ducing good horses has reason to thank 
any factor which materially retards the 
breeding of scrubs, even though the same 
factor may temporarily depress interest 
in the production of real drafters. 
“How far truck and tractor use may 
limit the field for drafters in the future 
no one with certainty can foretell. We do 
know that in the large cities trucks and 
teams appear to be reaching a balance. 
Teams are cheaper and more effective in 
short hauls, trucks superior in the long 
hauls. For a time trucks replaced teams 
at a very rapid rate in our large cities. 
Chicago, especially favorable to truck 
usage, has exact data on this. During 
the three years ending April 30. 1015, 
two-horse teams decreased 15 per cent, 
three-horse teams 30 per cent, and auto 
trucks one ton or over increased 441 per 
cent. During the next three years end¬ 
ing April 30, 1918, two-horse teams de¬ 
creased 21 per cent, three-horse teams 
only 8 per cent., and auto trucks over one 
ton increased only 174 per cent—less than 
half as rapidly as the preceding period. 
Furthermore, there was an increase of 2 
per cent in the three-liorse teams in the 
last year, and this tallies with the state¬ 
ment of very competent draymen, who 
stated that there had been a tendency on 
the part of some firms to swing back to 
heavy drafters for more of their short 
haul work. In Greater New York there 
was during the two years and four 
months ending in March. 1917. a reduc¬ 
tion of only 2,100 horses, despite a great 
increase in trucks. This was a decrease 
of less than 2 per cent.” 
He spoke in detail of the need of in¬ 
creasing the efficiency of the draft horse, 
reducing the cost of production, and of 
the probable foreign demand. 
The stock show was creditable, but 
small. The following societies convened 
during tke session : 
New York State Draft Horse Breeders 
Club. New York State Sheep Breeders’ 
Association. New York State Berkshire 
Breeders’ Association. New York State 
Cheshire Swine Breeders’ Association, 
New York State Association of Horsemen, 
New York State Guernsey Breeders’ As¬ 
sociation. Empire State Ayrshire Club, 
Holsteiu-Friesian Club of New York, 
Onondaga Guernsey Club. 
A resolution was adopted requesting 
modification of the law controlling quar¬ 
antine and retest of cattle shipped out of 
the State. As the law is now interpreted 
an animal passing the test and shipped 
out of the State and again being tested 
and reacting cannot be returned. Owners 
therefore suffer heavy losses in case the 
animals are killed, and seemed to favor a 
revision that would provide return priv¬ 
ileges in 'order that valuable breeding 
animals may be saved under the Bang 
system. , . 
Wm. Church Osborne submitted plans 
and details that were plain and practical, 
centering around farm activities. He. 
too. felt sure that the live stock farmer 
was notably fortunate in choosing a sys¬ 
tem that would always surround him with 
utility live stock capable of turning his 
money promptly and with substantial 
gain, lie would extend credit to farm¬ 
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principle, and felt that banks would sure¬ 
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limited in means but determined in spirit 
to cling to the farm, where success was 
sure to follow any intelligent plan con¬ 
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stock and feeding them on feeds grown at 
home and harvested with labor-saving 
machinery. Calvin J. llusou was elected 
president of the association for the en¬ 
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