HORSE FLESH WANTED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 April 1910, Page 10

HORSE FLESH WANTED.

AUSTRALIAN:. SCARCITY. ' ".: In a lengthy art/cle commenting on the remarkable demand , for good ...-;'■ Hraught horses in New '}. South' ■• Wales,~..;.the "Sydney Mail" states that prices .]'[■ ; are now-ranging up to £60 and £70 .each. There is. very, good;money in '.horse-breeding at tins'rate,■'or : even ■less. The prospects, the "Mail" states, "are such, as ,pretty well to guarantee : : big prices" for some years to come. The Australian wheat industry has received such an impetus in the last few. good ;. seasons; that in a few years' time it .' is fairly safe to predict a fifty per cent. • increase in the land under crop. Ifor next season there is expected to bo an increase of tons 1 of thousands of acres of wheat/land in all the States, , bar Queensland. The breeder, the "Mail" states, is. bound to get a good price— . probably; he will sell at a time when records are being broken. In any case .' he is pretty certain of a return'that will : repay him \handsomely for his trouble. : ;. A; wonderful change, has taken place ' ''.'in Australia in regard to good.draught .. horses. arid tho, prices they command. 'A decade'ago prices were so low that '•;'. many breeders went out of the business altogether, and even farmers who raised ; a. few head a year only produced" enough l . for: their.: own requirements. It - was • -.the industrial depression which produced the slump—it caused a feeling of doiibt and insecurity. But. what a .V: phange since. Every, industry is on the '. top ; rung,;' expanding at a'. - great rate, ... and all must have horseflesh. ■''. Ten ,\years agoVso depleted was .the.supply. . that the i'inorease: of breeding, operations since then has not been adequate to : meet the demand for. commorcial horses. " n ',; ev ? r y sphere;, they, want:: more.. of 'them. In the past twelve years prices in New South Wales have advanced 300 per cent., and the industry has passed . into a condition 'of record national -; .prosperity. More horses are at the present time being bred than before, ..'; ' and animals of better quality than ever before in the annals of breeding are being raised, and. yet. the market is / icalling out for a greater supply.