The harness horse by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Coach horses, Driving of horse-drawn vehicles, Coach horses, CHR 1898, PRO Pearson, Leonard (bookplate) (donor)
Publisher: London : Vinton & Co.
Published: 1898-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

compel the reminder that a moiety of our imported horses are of the cheapest sort, including many ponies, worth, at most from £6 to ^8, and also droves of animals worth little more. It is necessary to emphasise this factor in the statistical position because its effect is to brinp- down the averao-es to a level which contravenes our argument.

It would be highly interesting and instructive if the statisticians of the Board of Trade would differentiate broadly between the classes of the animal imported so far as to show, say, the number of horses whose value was declared respectively at over ^lo per head, ^25, /50, ^^75, and /lOO. We import few valuable heavy draught horses nowadays, no hunters, and only an occasional race-horse from Australia and America, so few as not to appreciably affect the averages. These negative factors in the case require no proof, they are matters of common knowledge ; and by the method of differentiation suggested we should see at a glance exactly how many valuable harness horses we were receiving each year.

There would of course still remain a difference between the "declared value" of importations and the actual sale price; but upon that disparity we need not lay stress ;

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