Posted by pat sublett on January 13, 2009 at 16:33:56 from (75.20.225.239):
Back in the 40s-- we always had a horse or two. We worked the garden with them, a little field work and used them for transportation to the neighbors. It got to the point that nobody wanted to fool with horses with tractors and cars coming on the scene. You couldn't give them away; they bought them over at the stockyards in Ft Worth and made dog food out of them. It is strange how history repeats it's self. Good times follow bad times and bad times follow good times. People had money, came out to the country, bought land and horses. Now times are getting hard, gasoline is high, horse feed is high. They are beginning to get rid of both. Problem is, again, nobody wants them. The PITA people got a law passed prohibiting horse murder, so no more dog food. We got a lot of furrow hogs around here. (I can see with hard times, the hogs being taken care of) I don't know what's going to happen to the horses though. I am afraid that we are going to have furrow horses soon. Somebody went to the local livestock sale last week and said donkeys were selling for $2 apiece and there were no buyers. If I had a donkey I would give somebody $2 to take it. I got a neighbor that has a couple of donkeys. They start braying about 5 minutes before the train comes through. Kind of an early train warning system. Don�t know any thing else they are good for though. Them big ears can hear that train a long way off.
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