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Show Spends Millions on Horses. From some statistics published recently re-cently by M. Kuan, the German minister min-ister of agriculture, the land of the kaiser leads the world in the matter of Importing horses. in case of war the Germans are bound that they will be In possession of a liberal supply of horses. For the last three years there has been a slight decrease, the cause being that some home breeders are doing well. In 1!iH!t Germany imported im-ported m.non howa at a cost of J:n,- .... huiih,u ip.1,1 .i 1. i "' imn n.ii.rij..r."nyi '' ' f 000,000. Most of the imports were made for draught purposes; light draught horses numbered 43,500 and were of the value of $4,500,000. Tns heavy draught horses numbered 48,500, and were of the value of $10,000,000. Supplies of the former class were drawn principally from Russia, which sent SOIL'S head; then came the Netherlands, Neth-erlands, w ith 9.021, Austria and Hungary Hun-gary accounted for 2.5J5, Denmark for 4S7, and the rest were drawn from France and Belgium. The heaviest of the draught horses were mainly supplied sup-plied from Belgium, 20,000 being imported im-ported at an average price of $310. Denmark Den-mark delivered 16,30:", France 5.847, Austria Aus-tria and Hungary 3.36U, Russia 2,051, tlie Netherlands W4 and England only 125. In U08 Germany imported 267 half-bred half-bred sires at an average cost of $1,020, most of them being from Belgium. Saddle Sad-dle horeses are put down as numbering number-ing 6,562. of which Austria supplied 2,946, against 1.227 from England. These latter figures include the thoroughbreds. thorough-breds. The favorite market for cheap horses for Germany has been Russia, which country supplied 16.NNN at an average cost of $75. |