Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-13

VI the INDUSTRY over It's pest ConOltlOH pEloI
to the great depression in the trade may
be gained from few comparative figures.
Thus, while the standard car horse price in
New York, before cables and trolleys came
In. was from $40 to 1925. horses of the
same grade now sell at $50 and 500. and
despite the absence of demand for the
street railroads, are scarce at those figures.
because they are admirably adapted to light
delivery wagon work.
What are known as good deliveries
such as the big department stores want.
are worth 500 to 800 each in New York;
higher prices even than the latter are not
infreauently paid. Good coach horses for
which the demand was never before so
great, there being so many more carriage
folk than at any time in the past, are
readily sold at prices running all the way
from $3.50 to 81, 500 "Runabout and road
horses sell at $500 and upward. and the
same figures are fetched by saddle horses.
When the latter are well broken to drive,
as we'll to ride, or when they are thor-
oughly gated that is. when they are
trained in all the PAGES, they bring even
more.
Most of the farm horse demand is sup
Piled from Chicago, ST. Louis and other
interior markets; though New YORK mas
some trade of that sort 1t is not extensive.
Such horses of first-class grade are worth
$50 each in New York, and heavy dralt
horses, weighing from i, Ioo POUNDS 10
ton each such the brewers use are
worth $50 and upward the pair. Clydes-
not now so popular as Percherons and Nor
mans.
Great Breeding Country.
These latter horses are raised in the mid
die west mostly, and this is true of the ouik
of the horse breeding in the United States
at this time. Indiana, Illinois, ONO, Mis-
souri, and Iowa are the leading states SO
far as business horses are concerned, Ken
lucky holds it's own, and more. in blooded
stock Southern-bred horses are smaier
and lighter than the horses generally caileo
for and when horses are sent south for
sale from the west the shipments are u.
comparatively light-built animals, TO SUIT
the southern preference
Vermont was at one time quite morse
producing state; the industry began to de-
cline there years ago and has not yet re-
gained its old level 1t Is picking up nova
DAYS. however, and may yet reach gooois
proportions There is no reason, lnoeeo' III
| tho oninion of several experts in the horse
| business with whom l have talked recently
why all New England should not oeCoine ;i a
noteworthy horse-bl eeding region Inc son.
| the feed and the water are all sultaoie- -
| is hardly likely that the speediest breeds
would develop there as we'll as III NJ. 81
| lucky, but the best business horses III ''0
world might well be raised there.
The establishment of horse breeding on d
liberal scale there would be Il verltable boon
to New England. Many farms, abandonea
because of their comparative ln1ertilitS ahu
their consequent lncapaclty 10 Idise WI
and corn and fruits at profit in competi-
tiou with the western farms. would De au-
mirable for the raising of horses, ana were
these old farms retaken up for TINS pur-
nose and made successful the general pros
uerity of the whole region would be vastly
increased.
Horses in New England.
Possibly the chief obstacle that the pio-
neer in horse breeding in New England
would meet would be the circumsta lance thal
the big travelling buyers would hardly care
to visit New England in search OF horses
till after the breeding interests had become
so large that trips thither would enable
buyers to secure large invoices of horses
This condition already exists in the morse,
predicting regions OF the middle west, ana
until a similar condition was reached III
New England breeders establishing them
selves there would have to add the cost OF
taking their horses to market every year 10
the annual expenses of their preceding
farms.
There was q time when Canada exported
a good many horses, both to the United
States and to Europe, but that time Is now
in the past. Canada is using most OF hei
own horses today; the demand for them IN
the new northwest, where n vast new Wneat
region is being developed, is so big that
Canadian breeders are doing almost as Well
as the breeders on this side of the boundary
line.