Identifier: industriesofruss00russ (find matches)
Title: The industries of Russia
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Russia. Ministerstvo finansov Crawford, John Martin, 1845-1916 Russia. Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennykh Imushchestv World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects: Trans-Siberian Railroad Mines and mineral resources Agriculture Forests and forestry
Publisher: St. Petersburg : (Trenke & Fusnot, printers)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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8 years, from 1843 to 1881, sometimes as a separate administration andsometimes as a section of the Ministry of the Imperial Domains. During all these yearsthe Administration, with the aid of private horse farmers, was active in furthering morescientific methods with reference to horse breeding, such as the publication of a well-edited Horse Journal, and the general dissemination of practical information among thepeasantry. By an Imperial Ukase of June 1, 1881, the principal Administration of theImperial studs was organized as a separate department. At the present time the Imperial studs tend principally, by all the means possible,to breed horses good for draft, for farming purposes, the cavalry, for town use, and fortrotters. To attain this end the Government has resorted to the same measures asbefore, but has increased the proportion of fine stallions. The Imperial studs contain more HORSES Chapter tStaSt^,.Map N°3. % ^r ^ . (.3 A H C V I C O C E X /. lii/tuin 0 ovayitjleinbla ^V^^
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,-> Jfo//e tit the Statistical Section of the. Department ofAraieulture Cartogaphical works A.JIyne S.P.i Number of horses in per cent of the total number of livestock. 1 I 7-10 10-15 15 -20 20 — 30 30 arid more LIVE STOCK. 211 horses, and the dimensions of prizes for incouraging racing of trotters have augmentedduring late years, as may be seen from the following data: Number of stallions, belonging to Government, in use in 1881, 1,053; in 1892, 1,916;number of breeding mares in 1881, 18.348; in 1892, 47,142. In 1892 there were in all 27 Imperial stables, and in the 58 governments of Euro-pean Russia there were 846 breeding stables. The number of horses in the Government studs, where English, Arabian and Orlovtrotters and many draught breeds were bred, grew from 2,713 in the year 1881, to 3,024horses and mares of different ages, in 1892. Tne racing reports show the same development in the studs. Races. In hurdle races.„ races . . . . ThP total wao-pr I The averaSe valuelhe tot

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