Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — Standard Value of Horses. [ARTICLE]

Standard Value of Horses.

Horses are not valued at higher rates now than in the earlier ages of the world, if we estimate prices paid for them according to the price of food, which seems to be a fair standard of comparison. In King Solomon’s time an Egyptian horse—the best horses were procured from Egypt —cost 150 shekels, about SBS. Six hundred years after Solomon, in the time of Xenophon, Seuthis, the Thracian, paid 50 drachma?, or about $135, for the steed on which he rode during the retreat of the Ten Thousand. ♦