AMERICAN HORSES IN DENMARK. 53 



Some people here are prejudiced a little against the American and 

 Canadian horses, saying, they invariably get sick and it takes a long 

 while for them to become acclimated, while other people say they 

 have no trouble whatever with them. On the whole, the horses from 

 the United States are landed here in very good condition, with the 

 exception of swollen ankles, due to standing continually during the 

 voyage, but this swelling soon subsides when the horse is put to work. 

 If the horses from the United States are properly looked after during 

 the voyage and after arrival, there is ho reason why they should 

 become sick any more than the native horses when they are sold and 

 shipped from place to place in their own country. 



The large firms in London who use American horses are well 

 pleased with them and purchase a great many. Any good, sound, 

 well-broken, young horse with plenty of bone and muscle and com- 

 pactly built, of any class or type, will sell well in London market; 

 but scrubs and badly broken horses are absolutely useless. 



The horses that are imported from Belgium are mostly black stal- 

 lions, known as the Flanders horse, which are used throughout 

 England for funeral purposes; are quite a good looking and showy 

 horse, very quiet, but with very little stamina and usually bad feet. 

 These horses average from $185 to $200 per head. 



Germany, Holland, and France send a mixed lot of horses to 

 England, of all grades and kinds, but France sends quite a number 

 of good large-size carriage horses; also a good army horse. The 

 horses from Russia and Denmark are mostly ponies, some of them 

 stout little fellows about 13 to 14 hands high, that will move along at 

 a rapid rate with a load twice their own weight. The prices of these 

 ponies range all the way from $25 to $250, according to form and 

 speed. 



The Argentine horses are, as a rule, like the Western pony or 

 cayuse of the United States, very wild and of little use except for 

 buck-jumping exhibitions, but, like the cattle from that country, the 

 breed is being improved very rapidly. These horses will bring from 

 $70 to $100 per head in the London market, the latter price being for 

 the best bred horses. 



AMERICAN HORSES IN DENMARK. 



[Report of Robert J. Kirk, United States Consul at Copenhagen.] 



The American horse appears to be gradually finding a market in 

 one after the other of the European countries. In January of this 

 year a dealer imported, as an experiment, about fifteen draft horses. 

 They were easily sold at prices varying from $150 to $350, one fine 

 pair of chestnuts bringing $900. A second shipment of twenty horses 



