Oklahoma Horses Can Not Be Shipped
Oklahoma City, March 27-Five hundred horses bought for the Italian government are being held at the stockyards here awaiting shipment, because the Texas livestock commission refused to allow them to cross the state for the Galveston port. The horses were secured by Davis & Young, local buyers and were collected here to be placed on board cars to be forwarded to Galveston for shipment there to Italy. President Frank Gault of the board of agriculture received word that the horses would not be allowed to cross Texas even though they remain in the cars and loaded directly on the boat at Galveston. Texas recently quarantined against Oklahoma when another outbreak of the foot and mouth disease was threatened. It is possible that these horses may be shipped over an eastern route to New Orleans, though the expense would be considerable.
Oklahoma Horses Can Not Be Shipped
Oklahoma City, Okla., July 15-Since the beginning of the war in Europe horses have been shipped from the stockyards here for use in the armies to the number of 35,822, being 1,135 car loads. Other stockyards in other states have been sending horses to Europe during the last year in comparative numbers, according to the animals available in contiguous territory. Buyers from France have been taking most of these animals, but Greece and Italy have also been in the market. The sum of nearly $5,00,000 has been paid for horses shipped from this city. According to recent statistics, the total supply of horses in the world is about 80,000,000. Of these less than one fourth are fit for duty that the war imposes. The figures give to the United States about 21,000,000 and to Russia a like number. Argentina has about 8,500,000.
At the rate the warring nations are absorbing the horses that are available, it is to be seen that there is an inevitable shortage of horses in sight for the next few years. This means probably high prices for horses and mules. It is said that the average life of a horse on the battlefield is only three days.
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