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stable ill June. Since 1867, i78 thoroughbred colts have been 

 sold at an average price of $907.30. The highest average 

 price -svas in 1885, when the remarkable average of $l,8r;5.60 

 was reached. 



The breeding establishment at Babolna extends over 10,117 

 acres. The specialty of this stable is the improvement of 

 races of oriental blood. The results were not satisfactory 

 with Arabian blood, consequently Syrian mares and stallions 

 have been introduced. The stable sends to the stallion de- 

 pots 50 horses each year. 



The Hungarian breeding stables at Fogaras are of the least 

 importance. There is much Arabian blood there. The small- 

 ness and absence of distinction in the breed is somewhat 

 indicative, perhaps, of its proximity to Turkey. Many sheep 

 of good quality are also raised here. 



The stallion depot of Sepsi-Szent-Gyorgy contains 150 stal- 

 lions, the other stallion depots of Hungary about 200 each. 



There are also two imperial breeding stables, one at Lip- 

 itza and the other at Kladriiber, which raise horses almost 

 exclusively for the em^jeror's stables. The first raises full- 

 blood Arabian horses, and crosses from this blood with Span- 

 ish stock. The first Arabian stallion sent here was a white 

 9-year-old taken from j^apoleon's stables after the battle of 

 Leipzig. Nearly all the horses at this stable are white. 



The breeding stables of Kladriiber furnish the heavy horses 

 of Spanish breed, which serve for the imperial gala carriages. 

 Their gaits are very j)oor. 



The breeding establishments of Austria, Fiber and Ra- 

 dautz, and their stallion depots and stallion posts, have simi- 

 lar organizations and administrations to those described for 

 Hungary. 



There are a great number of private breeding stables, but 

 none of very great extent. Among the most important of 

 these may be mentioned the stables of John Becker, Stephen 

 Blaskovics, Eleck Forster, Count Alvis Karolyi, Count Al- 

 bert Apponyi, and the stables of the city of Hodmezo- 

 Vasarhely. 



More than one-half the horses of the army are raised by 

 civilians, without any assistance from the breeding estab- 

 lishments or stallions of the state, as the number of remounts 

 influenced by these government institutions are insufficient for 

 the army. The horses raised by private breeders naturally 



