Special Report on the Market for American Horses in Foreign Countries, 1898 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Special Report on the Market for American Horses in Foreign Countries, 1898 U. S. Department op Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C., December 12, 1898. Mr. President: I have the honor to transmit for your information and that of the Congress of the United States a report consisting of a number of communications on the subject of the demand for American horses in certain countries of Europe. At the time of assuming office as Secretary of Agriculture I was already much impressed with the necessity of an output abroad for our surplus horse production. For some time previous extraordinarily low prices had prevailed for horses in this country, and horse breeders and horse raisers throughout the country were correspondingly depressed. It is quite possible that in this apparent cause for discouragement there really was a blessing in disguise, for it is probably due to these extreme low prices that the first impetus to the foreign demand for American horses was due. Whatever the cause, the figures which I have the honor to submit at the close of this communication will show that the export trade in American horses, hardly more than begun some five years ago, has advanced with rapid strides. My first thought was that to develop this opening, which presented itself so opportunely to our much discouraged horse raisers, was a duty which this Department owed to them, and I was convinced that the most useful service it could render them was to gather from all available sources whatever information could be procured as to the character and extent of the demand existing abroad for horses of all kinds. Without such knowledge it was obvious that many unprofitable shipments would be made, and not only cause a loss to the slippers and consequent discouragement, but, by placing undesirable animals, undesirable at least from the European standpoint, in foreign markets, dissatisfaction among foreign buyers would be generated and opinions unfavorable to the American horses would result, thus perhaps seriously retarding the development of this export trade, if it did not altogether arrest it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.