Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — Raising Horses. [ARTICLE]

Raising Horses.

The Germantown Telegraph very properly remarks that it does not appear to be as generally known to the farmers and planters of the United States as it should be, that there is always a permanent market and regular demand for good horses in all the great cities in this republic, as well as in the leading countries of Europe. The great powers of the Old World maintain such enormous armies that the use of horses for cavalry and artillery,for transportation of baggage, ammunition and supplied renders necessary large resouroes for the unfailing supply of these animals. In this view of the case, it is really surprising that it is only of late years that the shipping of horses from our leading ports to those of Europe has become a regular business although still far inferior to the enormoOs proportions assumed by the shipment of homed cattle. The fact is, however, that by extraordinary stupidity, the business of raising horses has been in this country too much mistaken for a connection with horse-racmg; when, in reality, the two things are entirely distincA