Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-16
part supplied. A good, snowy, blood

part supplied. A good, showy, blood
like, looking three minute team COM
mands high figure in every city in Our
land, while speedy, stylish single driv-
ers, even if not flyers, sell at figure
| leaving their producer long margin
over the cost of production for his
trouble and profit, while very speedy
single or double drivers command such
fabulous prices as makes them play
things only for millionaire owners. And
with the present relations of demand
and supply it must be long while to
come before high grade of fleet footed
trotting horses will cease to command
the longest figures relatively OF all the
products of our country.
1t is trCe that occasionally, in local
way, good ones of genuine merit both
in breeding and prospects may be
bawked about, or even squandered at
losing price, but it is only when not
fitted for market, or when offered in a
community where its merits are un-
known and unappreciated.
But as it is with other kinds of
merchandise, SO is it here; really good
goods, properly prepared and put on the
market with any judgment, will realize
not only a handsome profit, but an eX-
ceptional one that will stand consider
able reduction and still be renumer-
ative.
But so far reference has only been
had to home market and demand,
whereas no future event can be more
certain than that there is foreign
market already awaiting our knock
and entrance that will take all our
surplus whenever we have any, for
generations to come, and at a price
akin TO the tribute we paid the old
world for ages, for stock in no wise to
be compared with what we have to come
back to them in turn with. And the
indications OF this event are so clear as
not to admit of mistake in interpreta-
ton by any who discern at all the signs
of the times. Nearly every country in
the known civilized world have plainly
irdicated a growing interest in this new
American product, and have been
sampling our stock in rapidly increas-
ing quantities and with the greatest
apparent satisfaction. The visits of
commissioners from the wealth and
nobility of nearly every land under the
sun, becoming more and more frequent
and widespread every year, and multi
plying still more rapidly in the pur-
chases they make, and the demand for
the best-regardless of prices-is more
than straw showing the direction of
the wind.
The sales plants, put in at several
places in our country at an expenditure
of millions by the gratest horse sales
farm in the world-the Tattersalls, of
London-is still more suggestive. The
marked interests and attention shower
ed upon John Splan and his trotters all
throughout his European travels, year
or two ago that has induced repetition
of the adventure. only on more exten-
sive scale, ON which he embarked less
than a fortnight ago, like trip, ad-
venture, encouraged and entered upon
by DR.. Day, of Waterloo, New York,
with a goodly number of this great
worlds horse-all are indicative of the
realization of what all intelligent repre-
sentative trotting horse breeders have
long firmly belieEed-that the Ameri-
can Trotter has the whole world for
his market, and that ages will not ex-
haust, but increase the demand for
him. Not the market, but the right ar
ticle for the market, is the anxious
question for the troIting horse breeders.