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Essay On Horses In The 1970s

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Today growing concern is the increased burning of fossil fuels, which is destroying this atmosphere, but did you wonder what it was in the 1970s? In the 1970s Americans were living in the worst conditions of pollutant. The major cause of this was the increased use of horses which was the new era of concern. With horses releasing an average of twenty-two pounds, by about three and half million horses this caused the unsanitary conditions. Horses were used in large numbers for multiple purposes in this era even with automobiles being out there. The horses were used for traveling but also for commercial work such as lifting heavy freight but also for residential work such as delivering ice, milk, and other goods. The busy streets crowded of horses …show more content…

The manure traveling everywhere caused the air to be filled with sickening vapors which gets into people faces or trapped on people’s window of their houses. The richer residential would move the manure into their streets into poorer neighborhoods which would make conditions worse. The horses also caused a lot of problems with the noise they made when they went through the streets. The iron tired wheels and the iron shoes made a clanking sound which many people complained about. Some of the mistreated horses would end up dying right in the middle of the streets. To fix these serious issues, the city went to work, by making households sweep the roads in front and introducing new street-sweeping machines. The Chemical Compost Manufacturing Company attempted to create new devices which employed many people. With panic of diseases being in the soil, cities began focusing more on cleaning. To get more money for cleaning, authorities began selling the manure in the streets to farmers for a small price for fertilizer. The city began hiring private contractors to help improve the status of street

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