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CHAPTER XXX. 



CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



French Horses — Spanish and Portuguese Horses — German Horses — Dutch and 

 Belgian Horses — Danish Horses — Austrian Horses — Hungarian Horses — Polish 

 Horses — Italian Horses — Russian Horses — Swedish and Norwegian Horses. 



French Horses.* — We learn from Cagny and Gobert 

 that '^France contains about 3^000,000 horses, which 

 number has been more or less stationary for the past ten 

 years, and which is equivalent to about g horses for every 

 100 inhabitants. The value of all the horses, asses and 

 mules in France amounts to about £40,000,000 ; and the 

 value of the exported horses is much greater than that 

 of the imported ones. We export horses to Germany, 

 Belgium, Italy, Spain, the United States, and South 

 America. We import pleasure-horses [chevaux de luxe] 

 from England, Austria, Hungary, and the United States ; 

 and draught horses from Belgium and Holland. In France, 

 the breeding of draught and coach horses is flourishing , 

 the breeding of saddle horses is making great strides, espe- 

 cially in the South, Nivernais, and Charente ; the breeding 

 of coach horses pays better in Normandy than that of 

 saddle horses ; and the breeding of thorough-breds is par- 

 ticularly prosperous, and successfully rivals that industry 

 in England." These good results afford abundant proof 



* The following remarks on French horses have been compiled chiefly from Sanson's 

 2 ra//J de Zootechiiie, Gayot's Les Chevaux de Trait Francais, Gallier's Le Cheval Anglo- 

 Norniand, Cagny and Gobert's Dictionnaire Vdtdrinaire, and Charles du Hays' Le 

 Merleraidt , ses ilevezirs, ses chevaux, et le haras dii Pin, 



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