EXPORTS OF AMERICAN HORSES. 

 Number of horses exported during five years ending June SO, 1896. 



57 



This table shows that our export trade in horses has constantly 

 and, at certain periods, rapidly increased since 1892, and that the 

 United Kingdom has received 40 per cent of the entire number 

 exported. 



Through the courtesy of our Treasury Department, I am able to 

 state that our export trade in horses for the fiscal year June 30, 1896, 

 to June 30, 1897, far exceeds all past records, and that while the 

 general exports increased, the number England took from us also 

 increased, until within the last year she stands credited with nearly 

 50 per cent of our entire exportation. 



Number and value of horses exported from the United States to the United King- 

 dom, Germany, Belgium, and France during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1897, 

 according to the official returns received by the United States Treasury Depart- 

 ment. 



Countries to which exported. 



Number. 



United Kingdom... 



Germany 



Belgium. ., 



Prance 



All other countries 



Total 



39,532 



Value. 



4,769,265 



Those figures prove that we are rapidly increasing our horse trade 

 with the United Kingdom and Europe, and the logical inference is 

 that if we can improve our horses to more nearly- conform to the 

 requirements of our customers we can sell them a larger number and 

 at better prices, unless the demand is limited and the present price 

 not subject to increase. 



To arrive at a correct analysis of this proposition, we would nat- 

 urally inquire, Where and in what capacity are the horses used which 

 we now send abroad? This question, though pertinent, is quite dim- 

 cult to answer; but to do so would at once show us whether the horses 

 we are now exporting are put to uses for which high prices cUn be 

 paid, and whether there is not a higher position which it is possible 



