Show f jl J l i demand for good specimens greatly exceeds the number in sight Bu business Busi sines nesa Is very profitably Profi Profit tabi abl t we are not horse poor not as some people are land poor because they have to much but horse poor be cause we haven t enough horses after the civil war we found our selves short of horses of the bigger tapes and began importing them for bleeding breeding purposes we imported them the in to good purpose and in very large numbers and greatly improved the quality of our olar stock when electric ity began to haul street cars the mar ket tor for the condoner con moner kind of horses tell fell off and farmers didin t breed so many when the automobiles began to appear and were heralded as ma chines that must supersede the use 0 carriage horses the breeders of the better class clas of horses took aright for ears atter 1893 too thousands of people who wanted horses could not afford them but with the return 0 of prosperity the demand tor for good horses began to grow again and breed era ers bred more of them but it takes about five years to raise a horse that Is fit tor for the market and the breeders got behind the demand has out run the supply the price of good holies has very greatly and imported stall ons are eald said to be br worth nearly ten times what they were ten years ago the bouth south african war took a great number 0 of horses out of the country including many worthless ones but bat the business p of 1 10 se breeding has revived so that we shall soon hae again a reasonably full supply enterprising farmers nowadays breed good horses it pays and breed ing poor horses doesn doean t pay we im port horses from europe for breeding purposes and from canada tor for use but of late we have exported far more than we have imported and are likely to keep on doing so the an nual horse show in new york which seems seem on its surface to be a frivolous spectacle really holds a highly important on to one of the great of the country it is the parent of all the american horse shows and with them constantly measures stimulates and directs the country s progress in the breeding breed ol 01 fine horses there are about 13 SOO horses in our land of an estimate ed value of the tm pro of tha much stock is a pretty important matter especially in these days when europe la Is horse poor too and ready to take from us any surplus of good horses that we may come to have harper s weekly |