CHAPT ER XXVI 



S T A N D A R D-B RED HORSES 



Does not America export other animals than horses? 



'Yes, certainly. Bullocks for slaughter are sent over 

 in great herds, while Chicago exports enormous quantities 

 of prepared meats to all parts of Europe. Still, with all 

 the vast and unparalleled facilities for growing live stock 

 in this great country — which it is estimated can be done 

 ninety per cent, cheaper than any country in Europe — 

 America exports few animals except as they go to be 

 butchered. If you will read the statistics, you will see that 

 it is by the continued annual importation of breeding stock 

 from England and Scotland that the cattle in the vast plains 

 of the West do not deteriorate. Is it to the credit of this 

 continent, with its enormous grazing lands, its fertile valleys, 

 its unlimited supply of fresh spring water, its spreading 

 shade trees, its beneficent if changeable climate, that 

 America imports in almost all cases her thoroughbred 

 animals, instead of mating properly and breeding in- 

 telligently, and so creating types of her own ? It is true 

 that horses are now being exported in great numbers, 

 but they are sold at prices in most cases far below their 

 value. The trolleys and electric tramcars have lessened 



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