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Export of American Horses. 



order to keep some control over the quality of the eggs they 

 are marked with the number of the branch which collected 

 them, and also with the register number of the member who 

 supplied them. To secure freshness the branches are 

 required to forward the eggs to the depot within four days of 

 the date of collection. Any branch which infringes the 

 regulations as to deliver}- is subject to a fine, and if it fails to 

 deliver a supply of eggs for a period of six months it is 

 thereby dissolved. 



The work of the association is carried on under the 

 superintendence of a council of five members, whose 

 principal duty is to see that proper arrangements are made 

 for the disposal of the eggs abroad. The members of the 

 association are paid for their eggs on delivery at a price 

 fixed by the committee on the market quotations. These 

 payments are made by the committee through the branches 

 from the funds at the disposal of the association. At the 

 end of the year the accounts are made up and the profits on 

 the year's working, after deducting the expenses of packing, 

 superintendence, freight, etc., are distributed amongst the 

 members of the association in proportion to the number of 

 eggs each has furnished. The branches contribute a yearly 

 subscription to the common fund of the association at the 

 rate of 6d. per member. 



Export of Horses from the United States. 



In a " Special Report on the Market for American Horses 

 in Foreign Countries," the United States Secretary for Agri- 

 culture states that the export trade in horses has made great 

 strides within the past five years ; in fact, its beginnings 

 were laid only during the Chicago International Exhibition 

 of 1893. During the following year there were only five 

 foreign buyers in the Chicago market, and only 2,000 horses 

 exported from that city — twice as many as had been sent in 

 an experimental way in the previous year, — while in 1897 

 there were seventy foreign buyers, and three-fourths of ihe 

 horses exported to Europe went directly from that market. 



