. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. vol. xxxn. No. io. No. 313 BUSH STEEEi. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898. The American Horse for Export. Address before the Cattlemens Convention at Pendleton, Ore., by F. J. Berry, of Chicago: "The subject before us is the American horse of to-day and the export demand. I will endeavor to show you the kiod of a horse that the markets demand at present and the most salable kind for the export trade. "Every horse should be bred for a purpose, and to meet all the requirements of bis class, with all the qualities that are required at the present ti
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. vol. xxxn. No. io. No. 313 BUSH STEEEi. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898. The American Horse for Export. Address before the Cattlemens Convention at Pendleton, Ore., by F. J. Berry, of Chicago: "The subject before us is the American horse of to-day and the export demand. I will endeavor to show you the kiod of a horse that the markets demand at present and the most salable kind for the export trade. "Every horse should be bred for a purpose, and to meet all the requirements of bis class, with all the qualities that are required at the present time. "There are five distinct classes of horses and every horse for the market has to fill all the requirements of one of these classes, or he is condemned as a no-class horse, and is of but little value, and would not sell in onr markets today for anything like the cost of producing him; therefore, he would be considered a failure. He might be a very useful animal in the country, bat would not sell in our markets for any thing like what it costs to produce him. Small, rough and ordinary horses are animals of the past, and never will be of any great value again. "The export demand is divided into five different classes of which I will give you an accurate description later on, and every horse must be an animal distinctly of his class, and the grades that are the most salable and profitable to pro- duce for all export markets are the very same kinds that are the most salable in all American markets. Therefore, a man in breeding horses for the export demand can make no mis- take. The up-to date horse of to day is a very much differ- ent animal from what he was five years ago; therefore, the breeder of horses is not left to his own resources, as he has been in former times, but has a fixed type before him, de- manded by the markets, and to meet the American, as well as the export demand, he bas to breed strictly for a purpose^ and every horse must be one of the five diffe
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