52 FOREIGN MARKETS FOR AMERICAN HORSES. 



below the knee. This class of horses will average $185 to $225 in the 

 London market. 



Balls Brothers are proprietors of a large omnibus line that runs 

 from London Bridge to Streatham Common and from Brixton Station to 

 Oxford Circus, etc. They keep 700 horses, which will average 3 years 

 of usefulness. These horses are 15f to 16 hands high, weigh 1,600 to 

 1,700 pounds, are 5 to 8 years old, and measure about 88 inches around 

 the girth, and 9£ inches around the leg just below the knee, with plenty 

 of bone and muscle. This firm purchases quite a number of horses 

 that come from the United States and Canada. 



Fig. 1, Plate III, represents a horse known in the London market 

 as a trotting ' ' vanner . " In America we would call such a horse useful 

 for a grocery or a light delivery wagon. This horse is 16^ hands high, 

 measures 78 inches, around the girth and 7\ inches around the leg just 

 below the knee, is 6 years old, and has very good action. He was 

 shipped from Boston to London, and was sold at auction for $128. 

 Fig. 2, Plate III, represents a horse that is used as a cavalry or army 

 remount horse. He is from the United States, and sold for $140 at 

 auction. Figs. 1 and 2, Plate IV, are those of heavy van or draft 

 horses. This is the class of horses that is in great demand in the London 

 market. Plate V represents carriage horses that make a very good 

 match team, are of the same size and age, and have plenty of style, 

 the team together being worth a great deal more than when pur- 

 chased singly. Mr. Johnson, the owner, has refused 150 guineas for 

 the team. Pate VI represents a draft horse that has been at work in 

 the Deptford Cattle Market for the last two years, and is a magnificent 

 specimen of its kind. 



For a heavy draft horse the Clydesdale and English shire horses 

 take precedence of all others, as they are compactly built, with plenty 

 of bone and muscle, and have good feet. The English idea that every- 

 thing to be strong must be heavy will apply to horses as well as to 

 wagons and other things. 



The Cleveland bay horse makes a very good heavy carriage horse. 

 I have often thought that some of our large size Wilkes-bred stallions 

 crossed on a Cleveland bay mare would make an excellent coach or 

 carriage horse, but have never seen the experiment tried. 



The horses from the United States are shipped from the ports of 

 New York and Boston to the ports of London, Liverpool, and Glas- 

 gow, and quite a large number are transshipped at London for the 

 ports of Antwerp and Havre. 



The ocean rates on horses from New York and Boston are from $25 

 to $30 per head, including feed and attendance, one steamship line 

 carrying horses from New York to London at $27.50 per head, includ- 

 ing feed, attendance, insurance during the voyage and for ten days 

 after landing, and dock charges. 



