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Show England Spends Sixty-Millions Sixty-Millions on Fox Hunts London. Between $50,000,000 and $GO,000,000 is spent on fox hunting tn Britain every year, according to the British Field Sports society. This figure includes the maintenance mainte-nance of homes in the country, and many other expenses Incidental to hunting. For hunting alone the cost Is estimated esti-mated at $22,750,000, an extremely large proportion of which goes to the country over which the hunt is conducted. con-ducted. For instance, agriculture takes a toll of about $8,750,000 for fodder and other supplies; the shoeing smith and the saddler draw $2,000,000; veterinary veter-inary surgeons $425,000; wages absorb $9,890,000; clothing $590,000; other hunt expenses $250,090; while $100,-000 $100,-000 goes to the revenue for licenses. Grooms and hunt servants alone number over 20,000, whoBe wages are circulated in the villages. Nothing Is hero taken into account of the cost of the maintenance of the supply of 40,000 hunters or kennel costs to maintain a pack of hounds In the necessary state of efficiency. Some Idea of the huge proportions of the industry of fox hunting, which has Just closed to reopen next November, No-vember, can be gained from the fact that there are 200 packs of foxhounds fox-hounds in England, Scotland, and Wales which keep no fower than 6,809 couples of hounds. The average cost of keeping a for hound Is about $75, of a hunter $420, and of a broodmare, of which about 5,000 are required to maintain the sup-" sup-" ply of hunters, $150. |