. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Jut-v 12, 1902] &he $veebev anb gtp&vi&tnan Export of American Horses. The revival of the horse does not necessarily mean a decline in the popularity of the bicycle, automobile, and trolley. These latter will go on independently of our four-footed beast of burden, and the latter, it may be said, will have his day again in spite of harnessing all the agencies of nature for performing the work of man. Wars and rumors of wars stimulate the demand for horses and mules, and in times of peace new forms of sport and pleasure introduce ways of utilizing the
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Jut-v 12, 1902] &he $veebev anb gtp&vi&tnan Export of American Horses. The revival of the horse does not necessarily mean a decline in the popularity of the bicycle, automobile, and trolley. These latter will go on independently of our four-footed beast of burden, and the latter, it may be said, will have his day again in spite of harnessing all the agencies of nature for performing the work of man. Wars and rumors of wars stimulate the demand for horses and mules, and in times of peace new forms of sport and pleasure introduce ways of utilizing them. The world to day appears to be suffering a horse fam- ine, and the heavy drafts made upon the resources of this country contribute largely to the steadily advanc- ing prices for good horseflesh. England has been an excellent purchaser of our horses and mules for her South African campaigD, where the animals were killed off by insects and the climate so rapidly that it seemed asif a sufficient numbercould never be shipped there to keep the army in the field well equipped. In Europe to-day not a single country raises enough horses to meet its own actual demand in times of peace, and the facilities for breeding and raising horses are growing poorer every year. There are few good grazing lands and stock-breeding farms in Europe where horses can be raised on a large scale, and conse- quently this country becomes more and more the land for keeping the European armies supplied with their proper complement of horses and mules. In recent years tho American trotters and fine carriage horses have become important factois in the export trade, and whereas a few decades ago such a thing as an American horse was hardly to be found abroad, to-day we have a steady stream of them going to all the Eu- ropean centers. Not even Russia has hesitated to ivail herself of our best blooded stock, although for yeai's the Orlolt strain of trotting stock held complete supremacy in the minds of the Czar'
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