Thus the farmers turn the grass into beef, and in that shape it can be transported and sold." "And what else ?" asked Marco.
"Why, they raise a great many horses in Vermont," replied Forester.
"These horses live upon grass, eating it as it grows in the pastures and on the mountains, in the summer, and being fed upon hay in the barn in the winter.

These horses, when they are four or five years old, are sent away to market to be sold.

They can be transported very easily.

A man will ride one, and lead four or five by his side.

They will be worth perhaps seventy-five dollars apiece; so that one man will easily take along with him, three or four hundred dollars' worth of the produce of the farm, in the shape of horses; whereas the hay which had been consumed on the farm to make these horses, it would have taken forty yoke of oxen to move." "Forty yoke!" repeated Marco.
"I don't mean to be exact," said Forester.