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PLAN AID TO SECURE ARMY HORSES St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 5. At a conference held at the club house at Maxwelton, between a number of state breeders of light types of horses and many of the local owners and breeders, the question of aiding the government in increasing the breeding of horses fit for army use was discussed at length. Prof. E. A. Trowbridge, chief of the department of animal husbandry of the State University, who was present, stated that he had been in Washington a few days before and that the government was much worried over the scarcity of horses available for army use. He suggested that the state that would evolve the best plan to increase the production of light types of horses would be the one to most quickly get govermental aid. He also thought that the tracfors might decrease the breeding of heavier types and that by a system of education the farmers could be induced to take up the breeding of lighter types. All of those present at the conference agreed to go over the matter with people interested in their districts and the matter will be brought up again for active work, probably during Farmers week at Columbia, Missouri.
