The evening times., 1899-08-09

for that year shows she received duties
paid on American horses numbering 2, ,479,
being 1,155 more than we give Germany
credit with that year. The duty imposed
by the German Government on all foreign
horses is 20 marks. or about So per head
Russia has an immense cavalry and no
good horses to supply it with. Her mill
tary mounts are said to be the poorest
in the world. Some efforts have been made
of late to breed up the horses of Russia
so as to render them more suitable Tor
cavalry purposes. But as yet little Fro
gress has been made, and the country is
SO large and the horses so very inferior
that it will take many years to make any
appreciable progress or Improvement The
Orloff horse which is now produced In
some portions of Russia, is not good
cavalry horse He is too light in weight,
too long in the back, has sioping hips,
and lacks the substance that is abso-
lutely necessary to good cavalry horse.
He is not short ribbed, narrow in the
flank, and light in the bone, and while
some are remarkable for their speed, they
are. as rule, very poor cavalry horses.
This, however. is the best horse for tnat
purpose that the country affords. as the
Cossack horses are mere ponies, and would
have no chance whatever against the Dest
cavalry horses of the present day.
Russia,s Cavalry Horses.
| Russia now buys her cavalry horses at
home, except the horses for her officers
She does this for two reasons: First. she
is compelled to; and, second, she is anx-
ious to encourage horse breeding in her
own country. This is a great field for the
American horse and sooner or later he
will find it. The popularity of the Rus
sian people renders it difficult to ship the
horses there direct but their dealers have
already commenced the shipmnt of Amer
| lean horses from Berlin, and are much
pleased with them. Berlin seems to be
| the accepted distributing point for that
country. and the question will doubtless
| arise in the minds of some, why do they
| not purchase horses in east and west Rus
sia, where the German government gets
! its cavalry remounts? The answer Is that
the German government reserves the right
to select what horses 1t wants fire
those it leaves are only at for cabs ,.id
work OF like character. Thus 1t will be
| seen that the Russian may as well be
content with his Orloff horse in preference
to the one he would get in Germany at
anything Like reasonable figure.
The Russian Government is buying stall
lions in Belgium, England. Germany, and
other places 10 improve its horses, but so
| great is the task that it will be long in ac-
complishing it. The demand for our hors es
there. which will perhaps be first shipped to
Germany, must have potent influence on
! the export trade of the United States at nc
distant day. What has been said of Russia
! can also be said of Italy This country
produces 10 horses worth mentioning, and
depends on Germany for carriage horses
and on Hungary for her cavalry horses
Hungary produces a light nervous horse
with much blood and not just what is re-
quired for cavalry purposes. Italy re-
quires a considerable number of horse;
for her cavalry each year, and we shoult
at the present time be furnishing her wha
she needs, as we can furnish her a better
horse than she is now buying elsewhere