The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-11-14
HORSES AGAIN IN DEMAND.
England Secures Twenty-Five Ihousan,
Fine American Animals.

Fine American Animals.
In spite of the alleged dullness II
the horse market on account of the BIZ
aeyele craze, 25,000 have been shipped tc
England this year. and there is con-
stantly increasing demand.
A year ago those farmers-and there !
were thousands of thenl--who were
making most of their money raising !
common or railroad" horses-were
J 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
I was invested, and from which they had
won their profits for years, wos
doomed, that they must abandon tor
! ever the one business to which they nad
! devoted their lives, and with which they
were familiar, and seek other ways to
make their farms productive. Many OF
i 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 ana
paddocks are once more being brought
into use, and they are satisfied that the
outlook is full of promise.
This most desirable change in the
status of a great industry has been
brought about so gradually that lew
persons not directly engaged in the
horse business knows anything about
1t. Its cause, according to William +.
Doerr. one of the best-known horse
dealers in the United States, has been
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tartiily
shown. to be by the English of The
facts with regard to the horse market
in the United States.
1t was some time last year that deaf
ers on the other side began TO send then
buvers over here. They had never done
30 to any extent before. Possibly TIM
|, was in some degree because they dit
!, not favor American horses, BIZ. chieii,
. for the excellent reason that American
, horses could never before be bough
+, / nearly so cheap as those of foreigl
r breeding. The first English agent wen
3 at his buying, perhaps, with some hes
. tation. but he soon became confident
for he found not only that the prices
n which he could buy here were much Of
, low the current prices abroad, but ais
Q that the American horses were harder
J. more enduring, grade for grade, an
& better looking than the English ANIMAL
& The first shipment of consequence
u was sent over rather early last yea
n and as soon as the horses were seen an
q tested there a rush of English buyers
* the states began. Ever since then II
y shipments have been constantly Il
~ creasing. But the traffic has not eve
10 vet reached its height, since there a
- :, at least 100 English buyers now in II
" land, picking up horses wherever tr'
may. Seven or eight hundred hors
are now being sent over every wee
and the total shipments of rallrc'
DO horses to England this year are like
a. to reach $4,000 or more.
~ The English have not yet adopt
~ electricity on their tram lines to al
3. extent. Their adoption OF street cars
~ the first place was slow, and, althop!
,e, they are now using them more free
en- they are still behind as to the method
IN hauling them. Some American hors
ct are being used for other purposes, b
ut not many. The grade of horses form'
ne " called ''railroaders" are so much D.
a Ter adapted to tram work than a
NJ other sort that they are all snapped
nv for that purpose.-Chicago journal.