10. 000, 000 HORSES KILLED

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16227, 24 March 1917, Page 2

10. 000, 000 HORSES KILLED

FAMINE AFT BR THE WAR. •That the next ten years, will see the greatest demand foe horses the- world has ever lcnownis thu opinion of Wayne Dihsniore, secretary oS the Percheron Society of America. His belief is based o l the unprecedented destruction of horses in (the great- war in Europe, which some authorities estimate as high sis 10, 000,000. America alone has ■lost 1,000,000 horses and mules since the outbreak of hostilities. Francs, England, Gotmany, and Austria, as well as all the other countries in Europe l'-risfc have been stripped of available' animals for military purposes, Russia alone having ;'* supply sufficient to meet be l " own needsWhen 'tlie war is over and the men under arms reiturn to agriculture and industry ever,V country in Europe will be short of horses unless the market experts arc -much mistaken. They expect Ito see hundreds of thousands exported, from the United States after pence is restored. Breeders who have ceased Ito raise horses in expectation that motor veln'les are going, to supplant thpin in nearly nil lines of work will soon see the mistake Ifchpy have made, Mr Dinsmnra declares. "It-takes time to make headway in tlie horse business," he. says.. "Five years are required, to prow a horse of marketable age. At lest- one should not expect more tba.n two foals from three mares, -i tm nveratro, per year. Moreover, no.':n'ore than 16 per tvnt. of our farmers nre raising anv coiv-s. Two or three years hence the others- are goinc: to wake up onlv to learn ifbnt a great opportunity has passed."