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Conserving the Nation's Horse Power

Horse Association of America

Abstract

For some unknown reason animal nutrition research men have ignored almost entirely nutrition work with horses and mules. I feel that this is a mistake, for back of the cattle and sheep and swine and back of the grain and forage that feeds them stand the horses and mules which have made possible greater production at less cost per man employed on farms than prevails anywhere else in the world.

Horses and Mules in Agricultural Work

There were more horses and mules in the United States at the time of the 1920 census than at the time of the 1910 census. There has been some decrease between 1920 and 1925 which is, as nearly as can be judged, about two million head, but this decrease has not been in animals in use but rather in young animals and those not in service, for there has been no marked decrease in the number in use between 1920 and 1925.