p. 69 | The Financial Cost of the Horse Disease

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 11, 1873

The Financial Cost of the Horse Disease

The Philadelphia Ledger takes up the money side of the horse disease. There are about 9,000,000 horses in the United States, valued at 666,000,000. If but one per cent. of these should be carried off, making 90,000 horses, it would entail a direct money loss of $6,600,000; two per cent., or two deaths out of every hundred, would bring a loss of over $13,000,000; and three per cent., which is the mortality in some cities, swells the loss to nearly $20,000,000. This is in addition to the heavy loss of the daily earnings of the vast proportion of the horses that are disabled and cannot work.