Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-04-18
AMERICAN HORSES ABROAD.
A Description of the Character of Animals
Required In Different Countries.

"A Description of the Character of Animals
Required In Different Countries.
The Department Of Agriculture has
issued its special report on the market
for American horses in foreign eoun-
tries, which gives all information
available relating to the export trade
in horses. AS to the kinds of horses
required we may quote from the Re
port as follows:
In London the tramways, bus COM
panies, jobmasters, and owners of
light delivery wagons are large purcha-
sers of American horses. Horses for
their use must be from 1915 to rs
hands high, weigh from 1900 to 1850
pounds, be compactly built with plenty
of bone and muscle and good action,
and average from 5 to 7 years of age.
They should measure from as to rs
inches in girth, and from S15to 913
inches around the leg just below the
knee. Such horses will sell from size
to S185, and sometimes as high as
5000
Large bus horses for suburban work,
D to s years old, Is hands high, weigh
ing 1,600 to LOO pounds, with a girth
of s. inches, bring from $1S5 to S225,
and exceptional native horses sell as
high rs $400. The "trotting yanner.
a synonym fer useful light delivery
wagon horse, Is to 161a hands, rs inch.
at girth, and ~ inches around the leg
just below the knee, sells for $125 to
S150.
Carriage horses, 80 inches at girth
and 91a inches around the leg just be-
low the knee, with good knee action
and well bred, will, if we'll matched,
bring from $3.50 to $1,500 per pair.
For heavy draft horses the demand
is always brisk, and Clydesdale and
Shire horses are reported most III de-
mand. Solid stocky 1872 hand, 1,750-
pound horse, free from blemish, 3 to
years old, 10 to 1013 inches around
the leg below the knee, and % to 100
inches girth bring from $3.50 to 1915.
Misfits, scrubs, and badly broken
horses will not do; but young good,
sound, well broken horse with plenty
of bone and muscle compactly built,
of almost any recognized class or type
will sell well in the London market.
OF the German trade the Report
says:
This trade does not require either an
impossible or an ideal horse suited to
all purposes; but it does demand good
horses of every kind, thoroughly pre-
pared for their special work. A horse
to bring a remuneratiye price, either
for home or foreign service, must fill
distinct place. /, G, he must be a good
one of his kind, whether that be n ca
yalfy horse, a draft horse, carriage
horse, trotteF hunter, a polo pony,
or what kind soever. The standard by
which good horses are judged is prac-
tically the same on both continents
A good horse in America is a good
horse in Europe provided he fills a dis
tinet want in the business of the eoun-
try. IN Europe horses pull carts, cabs,
omnibuses, coaches, trans, ploWs, etc.
and carry men on their backs. Thus
they need horses of all breeds, for no
one breed can possibly fill all of these
requirements satisfactorily.
An inference may be readily drawn
as to the character of horses desired
by each of the countries mentioned be-
low:
Great Britain.-Ninety per cent. of
all horses shipped to this country are
draft horses, about Z per cent. are
high-class cOachers, and 3 per cent.
trotting and light carriage horses.
Germany.-N inety-fiye per cent. of
all the horses shipped to Hamburg are
draft horses weighing 1900 pounds
or upward, the other 5 per cent, being
made up of high-class carriage. run
ming, and trotting horses. Most of the
latter are reshipped to Austria
Franee.-About s. per cent. of the
horses exported to this country are
what are termed cabbers. The other II
per cent. are about qually divided be-
tween draft horses and trotters.
HelgiHm.-About 2 per cent Of those
sent to Antwerp are trotting or light
buggy horses, % per cent. street-car
horses weighing 1.2Go pounds and -
per cent. draft horses weighing COO
pounds and upward.