HORSES ON FARMS.
RETURN IN AMERICA. CHICAGO, May 28. The experience of the Canadian prairie is Sging repeated in the Middle West States, where horses are again coming into their own, owing to the low price of feed and the high price of tractor fuel. In Illinois and lowa 18 horses are at work for every tractor, and fully halt of the farm tractors are idle. Horses are being more used throughout the United States this year than for. years past, and the sales of harness and horse-drawn equipment for the first five months of this year exceed those of any similar period in recent years. ,•',"•• Work horses and mules are bringing higher prices than have ruled for several years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 205, 11 June 1932, Page 5
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