Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-10-25
MANAGEMENT Of Horses.

M0naRe"cnG Va 18oAoSee
Desultory Observations on Breaking Breed.
ing and Managing Horses and Treating
some of their Diseases.
To the Editor Of the Franklin Farmer;
Il have often though. that the horse was
much neglected here, In comparison with
any olhcr stock. do not speak of the
raco horse, which is not, in my opinion, Of
any use to agriculturists or farness; but
as being only the means of gratifying the
national taste, rather more innocent or
agreeable than the Bull fghs in Spain.--
Abou, forty years ago, horses were gcner-
ally handsomer and better in Kentucky,
Than they are now but as soon as our at.
tention was turned 10 raising mules. the
horse was neglected. In Europe, horses
were divided into three ciasses-lhe draught
or work horse, including the carriage horse,
the horse of burden, and the riding horse or
poney. D.aught or work horses must be
of strong make, taller than the others, and
yet be active and supple in their movements
his heigh, Is or l6 hands. The horse
of burden must be smaller, say Is or IA
hands, and is preferred by many for his su.
perior strength. The riding or saddle
horse mus, be slender and elegant in all
his limbs and may be within IS hands. II
would be advantageous for every rich far.
mer to own stud horse for his own use,
and of strong breed Of the draught and
riding classes combined. II among his colts
there should be a racer, as it might happen,
he wond be sold as such and would be an
extra prof, without any risk. The stallion
thus kept for the farm, and therefore limited
to certain number Of mares, would have q
hardy and strong progeny, far superior 10
the weak offspring Of q worn out sire. The
animal himself would preserve his strength
a long time unimpared and even be worked
with great advantage to his owner. The
extreme plurality of mares, bred to one
horse, is one Of the causes Of the degenera.
cy Of horses.
The choice of mares is still more import.
ant than that Of the horse for many colts
resemble their dams, more than their sires;
and this is another cause Of degeneracy.'
The education Of horses, like thar Of men,
begins in their infancy. The care that is
given to ;he mare naturally enables per-
son to touch and caress the colt ITSELF which
iooses its shyness, and becomes gentle and
easy to break 10 his future labor. But al.
though he may be broke even at two years
old, he should never be rode or worked un'
sThe parent which has had any quality good
or bad deeply impressed upon the constitution
BY inheriting it through long line Of ancestry
win commonly transmit this quality TO the on
spring. Therefore il ono Of the parents b well
bred that is, has had the prominent good quali-
ties of it's species TO descend TO It through both
lines of ancestry, or through the several couyeEg'
ing lines, without cross from anifntis Of mie'
rior quality, and the other parent ID cb.. osese,
ing that is, has no distinctive qusisy inner'teo
through line ofancestry, -thes Che ohspttng VAL
common y if not invariI Ibly resemble the wen
bred parsnt, whether uaie OF female. Ths psiu:
ciple is we'll exempIded IN tho colts OF imported
Stafford, which resemble the sire, without excep:
ton 80 far a. we have seen or heard. IN color and
generallyalso in form, so far % the former can
be ju1ged Of at 50 early an age. notwithstanding
the great diversity in the color and form OF the
dams. The principle Of which we speak p also
strikingly exemplifsd in the Devon cattle, tho
Oldest Of The improved stocks, and of course that
in which the peculiarities Of the stock an rem.
dered most thoroughly constitutional BY lsng in.
heri.ance. The pecuisrities Of tho stock inys-
riably predominsie in the ball. and sssn % ths
quarter bloods, especially when The cross hsSs
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