PROBLEMS OF HORSE BREEDING DEVELOPMENT IN PEASANT FARMS IN THE SOUTH OF UKRAINE (1860s – 1910s)
Keywords:
horse trade, fairs, workhorse, agricultural entrepreneurship, farmer, state stables
Abstract
The paper analyzes the state of development of horse breeding in the peasant farms of the South of Ukraine in the post-reform period. The dynamics of quantitative development of the industry is traced. The relationship between the increase in the number of horses and the growth of the population and farms in the region has been established. It is proved that the peasants were the main owners of horses. The thesis about the “peasant” nature of horse breeding in the South of Ukraine is argued. It was found that the use of work horses in farming contributed to the development of the industry. Government measures to encourage the development of local horse breeding have been traced: creation of a network of state stables and copulation stations in order to improve the quality characteristics of work horses, holding exhibitions, etc. The price level and place of equestrian trade in the region are analysed. Attention is focused on the lack of “entrepreneurial” horse breeding in the region, the excessive situational nature of the horse trade among the peasants, and its local centers – fairs were clarified. The reasons and factors that led to the decline of the industry in the South of Ukraine are analyzed: high cost, low level of knowledge and culture on keeping, care, breeding horses, etc.
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34. Zertsalov, S.A. (1892). Stepnoe skotovodstvo v Novorossijskom krae, ego proshloe i nastoyashee [Steppe cattle breeding in the Novorossiysk region, its past and present]. Odessa: Slavyanskaya tipografiya N. Hrisogelos. [in Russian]
2. Bojko, V.V. (2013). Razvitie konevodstva i konnozavodstva v Tavricheskoj gubernii vo vtoroj polovine 19 – nachale 20 veka [The development of horse breeding and horse breeding in the Tauride province in the second half of the 19 – early 20 century]. Nauchnye vedomosti. Seriya Istoriya. Politologiya. Ekonomika. Informatika, 22 (165), 110–114. [in Russian]
3. Bystrickij, N.S. (Comp.) (1889). Pamyatnaya kniga i Adres-kalendar Ekaterinoslavskoj gubernii na 1889 god [Commemorative book and Address-calendar of the Ekaterinoslav province for 1889]. Ekaterinoslav: Tipografiya Gubernskogo Pravleniya. [in Russian]
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10. Departament Zemledeliya i Selskoj Promyshlennosti (1884). Svedeniya za osennij period i obshij obzor goda. In 1883 god v selskohozyajstvennom otnoshenii po otvetam, poluchennym ot hozyaev [1883 in the agricultural relation according to the answers received from the owners]. (Issue 3). Sankt-Peterburg: Tipografiya V. Bezobrazova i K°. [in Russian]
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16. Kandelaki, I. (1914). Rol yarmarok v russkoj torgovle [The role of fairs in Russian trade]. Sankt-Petersburg: Redaktsiya periodicheskih izdaniy Ministerstva finansov. [in Russian]
17. Kaufman, A. A. (1917). Voprosy ekonomiki i statistiki krestyanskogo hozyajstva [Issues of economics and statistics of the peasant economy]. (Issue 1). Moscow: Izdanie G.A. Lemana i S.I. Saharova. [in Russian]
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19. Markov (Ed.), Dubenskij, D. N. (Comp.) (1903). Konevye sredstva Evropejskoj Rossii: Obsledovanie sovremennogo sostoyaniya konnozavodstva i konevodstva gubernij Evropejskoj Rossii, s istoricheskim ocherkom) [Horses means European Russia: A survey of the current state of horse breeding and horse breeding in the provinces of European Russia, with a historical sketch]. Sankt-Peterburg: Voennaya tipografiya [in Russian]
20. Mel’nikova, D. A. (2017). Konskaya torgovlya v Rossijskoj imperii vo vtoroj polovine XIX – nachale XX vv. [Horse-trading of Russian Empire in the second half of XIX – at the beginning of the XX c.], History of everyday life, 42-51 [in Russian]. URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/konskaya-torgovlya-v-rossiyskoy-imperii-vo-vtoroy-polovine-xix-nachale-xx-vv (accessed May 12, 2021)
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22. Ostrovskij, A.V. (2014). Zhivotnovodstvo Evropejskoj Rossii v konce XIX –nachale XX v. [Livestock raising in European Russia at the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century]. Sankt-Peterburg: OOO “Poltorak” [in Russian]
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24. Skalkovskij, A.A. (1853). Opyit statisticheskogo opisaniya Novorossiyskogo kraya [Experience of statistical description of the Novorossiysk region]. (Part 2). Odessa: Tipografiya Frantsova i Nitche. [in Russian]
25. Svistula, O. V. (2015). Koniarstvo na Pivdni Ukrainy: istorychnyi ekskurs [Horse breeding in the South of Ukraine: a historical excursion]. Tvarynnytstvo ta tekhnolohii kharchovykh produktiv, 207, 63-73. URL: http://journals.nubip.edu.ua/index.php/Tekhnologiya/article/view/5586/5496 (accessed May 5, 2021). [in Ukrainian]
26. Urusov, S. P. (1911). Kniga o loshadi [A book about a horse]. (Vol. 1). Sankt-Peterburg: Russkoe knizhnoe tovarishestvo Deyatel. [in Russian]
27. Urusov, S. P. (1905). Krestyanskoe konevodstvo, ego sovremennoe sostoyanie i puti k uluchsheniyu [Peasant horse breeding, its current state and ways to improve]. In Trudy oblastnogo sezda po zhivotnovodstvu s 14 po 24 sentyabrya 1903 g. v gorode Harkove [Proceedings of the regional congress on animal husbandry from 14 to 24 September 1903 in the city of Kharkov].
28. Kharkov: Centralnaya Hromo-Tipo-Litografiya “Varshavchik”. (Vol. 2). [in Russian]
29. Verner, K. A. (Ed.) (1889). Sbornik statisticheskih svedenij po Tavricheskoj gubernii. Pamyatnaya knizhka Tavricheskoj gubernii [Collection of statistical data on the Tavriya province. Memorable book of the Tauvriya province]. (Vol. 9). Simferopol: Tipografiya gazety “Krym”. [in Russian]
30. Veterinarnoe upravlenie Ministerstva Vnutrennih Del (1915a). Predvaritelnye dannye o chislennosti domashnih zhivotnyh v Rossijskoj imperii v 1913 g. [ Preliminary data on the number of domestic animals in the Russian Empire in 1913]. Petrograd: MVD [in Russian]
31. Veterinarnoe upravlenie Ministerstva Vnutrennih Del (1915b). Predvaritelnye dannye o chislennosti i uboe zhivotnyh v Rossijskoj imperii v 1914 g. [Preliminary data on the number and slaughter of animals in the Russian Empire in 1914]. Petrograd: MVD [in Russian]
32. Volos, O.V. (2012). Z istorii pryvatnoho kinnozavodstva Khersonskoi hubernii (II polovyna 19 – pochatok 20 stolittia) [From the history of private horse breeding in Kherson province (second half of the 19 – beginning of the 20 century]. Ukrainian peasant, 13, 99–102. [in Ukrainian]
33. Zaderejchuk, A.A. (2010). Falc Fejny v Tavrii [Falz-Feins in Tavria]. Simferopol: Dolya. [in Russian]
34. Zertsalov, S.A. (1892). Stepnoe skotovodstvo v Novorossijskom krae, ego proshloe i nastoyashee [Steppe cattle breeding in the Novorossiysk region, its past and present]. Odessa: Slavyanskaya tipografiya N. Hrisogelos. [in Russian]
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2021-08-26
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Chernikova, N. (2021). PROBLEMS OF HORSE BREEDING DEVELOPMENT IN PEASANT FARMS IN THE SOUTH OF UKRAINE (1860s – 1910s). Scientific Journal of Polonia University, 45(2), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.23856/4504
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