HORSES ON FARMS
RETURN IN AMERICA. HIGH COST OF PETROL. Chicago, May 26. . The experience of the Canadian prairie is being repeated in the Middle M, es States, where horses are again coming into their own, owing to the low price of feed and the high price of tractor fuel. In lUinois and lowa 18 horses are at work for every tractor, and fully half of the farm tractors are.idle. Horses are being more used throughout the United States this year than for vears past, and the sales of hainess”and horse-drawn equipment f° r th ® first five months of this year exceed those of any similar period m recent
"Work horses and mules are bringing higher prices than have ruled for several years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1932, Page 5
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