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HOAV HOYA ILLINOIS HAS SUFFERED SUFFEREDThe Suffered The table and comments below throw a mathematical limelight upon the evil wrought jto to the horse breeders of the State of Illinois by the let us call it stupidity of legislative failure in the interest of racing The fig ¬ ures cures in the table only show the decrease necessary in the mere production of horses It does not exhibit the more important side issues They count 50 to 1 in dollars to Illinois and especially Chicago as to general loss as against breeding loss The side issues are rac race ¬ ing King selling by auction the action of operating keen and healthful race tracks and the specula ¬ tion ion about such operation There is a second array of side issues bearing on the action of railroads hotels and merchants who treat in a high class way with folks who spend money liberally and have no use for a credit depart ¬ ment meant The ban on racing since 1894 has cost Chicago many millions of dollars and other Illi Ill ¬ nois noirs towns half as much The total conserva conserve ¬ tively lively estimated is about 50000000 The table is from the Horse Review of Chicago So are the comments before it itAccurate inaccurate Accurate statistics showing the immense the almost startling decrease in the breeding of horses since 1890 in the state of Illinois are contained in Circular 179 a report by the State Board of Agriculture just issued This report goes into detail concerning all sorts of farm products and all classes of live stock It is compiled from the reports of more than 600 cor coir ¬ respondents and the accuracy of their work year by year has been proved by the annual returns of the various county and township assessors so that in dealing with them we are reasonably certain that they can be relied on Our readers cannot fail to be interested in the tables which give the number of foals in every county for the years beginning with 1887 and ending with 1896 The one point which stands out most clearly and which shows just where the horse interest stands in its ability to supply the demand of the present market is the tremendous decrease in breeding operations In 1887 as shown by the tables referred to there were foaled in Illinois 137565 colts of all breeds In 1896 this fell away to 69913 a total decrease of 67652 or nearly onehalf Neal During the years 1887 to 1890 inclusive the number of foals produced in all the counties of the state remained at about the same figure varying in many in ¬ stances but a few dozen or at worst one hun ¬ dred dared The first sharp decline was in 1892 but the bottom was reached in 1896 We have not the space in which to publish all the tables but have selected twenty counties at random in order to show just what the ratio of decrease has been The table as we give it shows the number of colts foaled in the seven years and is as follows 1890189118921893189418951896 Boone 962 944 810 662 527 464 349 Carroll 1634 1710 1671 1548 1457 1073 711 Champaign 3534 2977 2755 2034 1711 1129 941 ChampaignDouglas Champaign Douglas 93012051154 886 958 506 255 Ford 1841 1514 1488 992 1134 852 738 Grundy Gerund 1131 1139 1097 911 686 403 348 Henderson Enders 14361328172910891019 762 574 Jo Daviess Davies 161415281132 8241321 595 461 Kendall 1135 1164 1095 809 852 309 279 La Salle Sale SalleLee Allele 4607 4215 3520 2644 1842 1242 1290 Lee 2371 2599 2523 2012 1681 1216 935 Livingston 4413 4321 3639 3034 2716 1828 1615 Marshall 1391 1305 1307 1066 1070 596 432 McHenry Cherry 1913 1585 1402 981 714 492 363 Mason 889 544 709 722 400 329 239 McLean CLean 5049 4130 4102 2474 2005 1304 1077 Ogle 2715 2978 2773 2052 1584 1272 1064 Stark 11131149 85o 749 544 366 206 Vermilion 2208 1712 2161 1035 729 601 348 Woodf Woof ord Ford 1963 2013 1706 1411 1286 75
