The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-05-30
NEW YORWS HORSE MART
HOW THE DEALERS SUPPLY THE
GREAT DEMAND.

10000 sold BY Ono Firtn Last Year
What Can He Seen 20 tho Weekly sales.
With the advent OF electricity and
the automobile came an avalanche Of
learned articles upon the approaching
horseless age. and extremists actually
saw II Ia the near future when the
horse, except for recreation and racing.
would cease to exist. There would be
no use for the horse of commerce or
the heavy carriage The ponderous
2,O0O-pound Percheron, Clydesdale,
Shler OF Suffolk Punch would no long
er pull twice It's own weight. The
mammoth brewing, ice. and coal
wagons, with their triple teams, would
be replaced by steam or electric motors.
The expires companies and the great
commercial houses who require hun
dreds of light draught-horses for the
quick delivery of their orders in all
parts of the graet city would follow
suit while as for cab propnetors and
the livery stables, the automobile
would put them out Of existence in
short order.
It is strange. yet true that this
large crop of scientific prophecies has
turned out to be principally chat,
and that the horse is stiii king. 1t is
true that electricity with regard to the
street-car system, has replaced the
horse on all the trunk lines of the
city, yet it is a surprising fact that
the Metropolitan Traction Company
still employs 1000 horses Wealthy
men buy and use automobiles, but they
still retain their fine carriage and their
fast road horses There are autOmO-
bile cabs, but the cab service of New
York is generally supplied by horses,
and that vast section of the public who
like an occasional drive and go to a
livery stable prefer a horse and buggy
to the machine that they do not under
stand, and with which, if they are
sensible, they also have to hire a
chauffeur. AS for the great CONNER
cial firms, they have nibbled at the
auto-express wagons, and few are
seen on the STREETS, but they do not
represent one percent of the vast army
of vehicles which so swiftly deliver
at every door in the metropolitan city
the daily purchases.
It is estimated that there are in New
York 100000 general-purpose horses,
and it is a significant fact that prices
have in the past two years advanced
fully Is per cent, and that with the
strong foreign demand there will be
a still further forward movement.
A dozen big firms could be mentioned
who require from 200 to 300 horses
each, and one bakery firm alone has 200
in use. The various express companies
own from 400 to 500 horses each, and
the brewery companies pride them
selves upon their handsome heavy
horses which cost from $500 to $780,
The interesting question arises how
is the graet demand supplied, and Mr.
Joseph Carol, who is an acknowledge
ed authority on the subject, in an in
teryiew has supplied many interesting
details. The great market of New
York is not supplied by chance, but
by an organized system which extends
to every state in the union where
horses are bred and to all the great
markets where horses are sold. To in
sure a constant supply of the heavy
2000-pound horses for brewery pur-
poses, shrewd capable buyers in the
West, where these horses are bred, buy
them when two or three years old,
send them to Ohio and western Penn
sylyania, where they are sold to the
farmers with the understanding that
they will be repurchased at mutually
satisfactory price when the animal
is mature and perfectly lt for heavy
draught purposes. Ohio has been
selected because experience has proved
that the climate. soil and water are
admirably adapted for the develop
ment of horses of this class. The
farmer gets two or three years work
out of the animal, and it is to his
interest to feed and care for him we'll,
as upon the perfection Of condition
depends the price he will get
While the buyers attend to that
special branch, they are constantly on
ahe lookout for good general-purpose
horses, and as fast as the carload
or. when they are buying in Buffalo
or Chicago, a train-load, is secured
it is Immediately sent on to New
York, for this is business in which
delay means expense and loss. Large
sales, both public auction and private
are constantly goin on, contracts from
foreign buyers have to be shipped
as fast as the big stables are emptieC
they have to be redlled A norma
stock for private sale always ready To-
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