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is now being advertised, and I am informed the horses are selling 

 readily at $147 to $230. These are also draft horses. It does not 

 appear that any saddle horses have yet been offered for sale as such, 

 though some four or five of the first lot mentioned above have since 

 been broken to the saddle. 



American horses for this market should not be under 15 hands in 

 height and should be adapted for draft, unless otherwise ordered. 

 Denmark imports annually from 5,000 to 6,000 horses, mostly from 

 Russia and Finland, ranging from 12| to 14 hands. They are much 

 in demand by bakers, milkmen, truckmen, and others, whose business 

 requires light, active horses and light vehicles. 



Work horses, omnibus, car, and cab horses are almost exclusively 

 of domestic origin. For this class of work and for heavy draft gen- 

 erally there is probably no better animal than the Jutland horse, a 

 heavy, powerful beast. For victorias, landaus, and carriages German 

 horses are mostly used, there being also some Jutland horses. 



Saddle horses vary according to individual taste, English, German, 

 and Swedish predominating. 



Denmark annually exports from 12,000 to 15,000 horses of her own 

 raising to the Continent, many of them finding their way to France, 

 where they are used as cab horses. In 1896 there were imported 

 6,115 horses, valued at $491,646, or about $80 per head. There were 

 exported for the same period 15,959 horses, valued at $2,738,564, or 

 about $172 per head. That the native Danish horse is a fine animal 

 and commands good prices these figures prove beyond a question. 



Hamburg would, of course, be the port of entry in shipping horses 

 to Denmark. No papers are necessary for landing horses in Den- 

 mark beyond the health certificate of a veterinary surgeon at the 

 port of shipment, properly attested by a Danish consul. They are 

 admitted free of duty. 



I have recently had occasion to correspond with the recruiting 

 officers of the Danish army as to the adaptability of the American- 

 bred horse for use in the army. The officer in charge of this branch 

 of the service replies that he has not seen sufficient American horses 

 to form a decided opinion, but he is under the impression, from what 

 he has seen, that they are better suited for draft than for cavalry 

 horses. Draft horses for the army are recruited exclusively in Den- 

 mark, and it is safe to say they always will be. Cavalry horses, on 

 the contrary, are bought principally in Germany, and latterly, also, 

 in England. 



Some of the necessary qualifications of horses destined for the 

 cavalry are as follows: They must be blooded mares or geldings, 

 suitable in build and figure for cavalry, well gaited, kind in disposi- 

 tion, and strong in limb. Dapple grays and yellow and horses with 

 prominent marks (blaze face, wall-eye, etc. ) are never accepted. The 

 recruiting commission buys horses as a rule twice a year — in the fall 



