The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-15
HORSES AGAIN IN DEMAND.
England Secures Twenty-Five Thousand
Fine American Animals.

England Secures Twenty-Five Thousand,
Fine American Animals.
In spite of the alleged du.lneSs in
the horse market on account of t A hi
cycle craze, $4,000 have been shipped to
England this year, and there is icon-
stantly increasing demand.
A year ago those farmers-and there
were thousands of them--who Were
making most of their money raising
common or railroad" horses Jwere
about the bluest class of men in the
United States. To-day they are again in
good heart. Then they were convinced
that the industry in which their capital
was invested, and from which they had
won their profits for years, was
doomed, that they must abandon for
ever the one business to which, they mad
devoted their lives. and with hich they
were familiar, and seek other ways to
make their farms productive Many of
them, indeed, sold their horses at big
sacrifice and closed out without cere-
mony. Now they are beginning to go
into business again, their pastures and
paddocks are once more being brought
into use, and they are satisfied that the
outlook is full of promise.
This most desirable change in L 3
status of a great industry has been
brought about so gradually that few
persons not directly engaged ms IN.
horse business knows anything about
it. It's cause, according to William F.
Doerr, one of the best-knoWn horse
dealers in the United States, has been
the somewhat tardily
shown, to be sure by the English of he
facts with regard to the horse market
in the United States.
it was some time last year hat deal
crs on the other side began to send their
buyers over here. They had Tever done
so to any extent before. Possibly this
was in some degree because they did
not favor American horses, tU- chiefly
for the excellent reason that American
horses could never before he bought
nearly so cheap as those IF fore n
breeding. The first Englishlgent went
at his buying, perhaps, with some hest
tation. but he soon became confident,
for he found not only that the prices at
which he could buy here were much be-
low the current prices abrold, but also
that the American horses were harder,
more enduring, grade for grade, and
betterlo looking than the English animals.
The first shipment of consequence
was sent over rather early last year,
and as soon as the horses were seen and
tested there a rush of English buyers to
the states began. Ever since then the
shipments have been constantly in
creasing. But the traffic has not even
vet reached its height, since there are
at least 100 English buyers now in the
| land, picking up horses wherever they
may. Seven or eight hundred horses
are now being sent over every week,
and the total shipments of railroad
horses to England this year are likely
to reach $4,000 or more.
The English have not yet adopted
electricity on their tram lines to sny
extent. Their adoption of street. cars in
the first place was slow, and, althoegh
they are now using them more freely,
they are still behind asto the method of
| hauling them. Seine American horses
are being used for other purposes, but
not many. The grade of horses former
| " called "railroaders" are so much bet
| ter adapted to tram work than any
other sort that they are all snapped up
for that rpose.-Chicago Journal.