The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05
PHILADELPHIA LETTER.


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From Cur Own Correspondent.
HORSE TALK.
Horses, mules and asses will be exhib-
tied from September LIST to 18th; dogs
from September 4th to 9Th; bsrned cat
tie from 21st to October 4th; sheep, goats
and swine from October 10th to 18th;
poultry from October 9th to NOyem-
Der 9th.
HORSES.
I shall first introduce the horse dis
play, as the reader should know that
nothing tends more to the material adj
vancement of a people than the cultiva-
ton of good stock, hence, any items or
generalities that may serve to advance
this interest, should be carefully cOnsid-
cred. The horses for display at the ex-
hibition are classed as follows: Premium
thoroughbred turf stations, Arabian
stations, trOtting stations, perCherOn
stations, Clydesdale stations, running
horses, with the fastest record, walking
horses, ponies, pure-bred jacks, thorough
bred turf mares, trOtting brood mares,
pCLCuCIOu dLl4 VI YuESAhlG AAbG0y L4Gs@SLO4
teams, mules, to Pure-bred asses.
The horse was first domesticated in
Egypt; the date of their use is uncer-
tain; 1920 years before the birth of Christ
when Abraham Ieft Haran, in obedience
to the divine command, and was driven
into Egypt by the famine which ragged
in Canaan, Pharaoh offered him sheep,
and oxen, and asses, and camels. Had
there been horses, it is probable they
would have been mentioned. Fifty
years afteward, when Abraham jOurneyed
to mount Moriah, to offer up his only
son, he rode an ass. 1t was in 174O be-
fore Christ that the first mention is made
of horses. Arabia, where the breed was
improved, was not the native place of the
horse. Solomon, six hundred years after
this period, imported gold, silver and
spices from Arabia, but his horses from
Egypt.
THE BARB.
This ia the head of the Arabian breed.
He is from Barbary, particularly from
Morocco and Fee. 1t is lower than the
Arabian, seldom exceeding fourteen hands
one inch; shoulders fat; chest round :;
joints inclined to be long; but the head
is beautiful. 1t is from the Barb that
Spain has secured all her fine stock.
And here history tells us that it is from
the GOdOlphin Barb that Great Britain
has produced all her fine stock of horses.
The DOngOla horse is from the kingdom
of DongOla, and from Egypt and Abys-
sinia. He stands sixteen hands high.
There are three breeds of Arabian horses;
the AIteCki or inferior breed, the kadis-
chi, i. G., horses of an unknown race, q
half-breed, and the KatChlani, whose
genealogy is known for 1000 years, The
China horse is small, weak, and ill
formed. The Persian horse is next to
the Arabian; the head not so beautiful,
the crupper superior, equal in speed, but
deficient in endurance. The Tourke-
man horse, from Turkistan, south Tar
tary, northeast of the Caspian sea, is of
pure and valuable breed; for service
they are said to be more desirable than
the Persian. They stand sixteen hands,
and are inexhaustible under fatigue
some have travelled nine hundred miles
in eleven successive days. The Tartar
and Kalmuck horses are small and badly
made, but capable of great endurance.
| The Turkish horses are from the Arabian;
the body is larger, the Crupper more ele-
waited. The German horses are large,
heavy and slow. Swedish, Finland and
Norwegian horses are rarely over twelve
hands; they are handsome, spirited and
fleet. The Iceland horse is strong and
feet, but smaller even than those of Nor
way. The Flemish horses are large and
strong. The best French horses are from
LemOusin and Normandy; ponies and
golIoways from Auvergne and Potion.
The Spanish charger, from Andalusia,
and the genet, are known to all readers
of Spanish history and romance. The
italian horses, particularly the Neap0li'
tan, were once famous, but the stock has
degenerated.
POINTS.
A horse has twenty-eight points, some
of which may be enumerated: The eau
dial vertebrse has fifteen bones; the COS
ta or ribs, seven; the cOrpas knee con-
sists of seven bones; the tarsus or hook
consists of six bones. II the judges will
study the twenty eight points OF horse,
and then tell us how to tell how old he
is, why, the horse show will serve q good
purpose, as the buyer is tired of that
specialage for all horses, six years last
spring, sir"
EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCES.
IF there is a spot on the earth where
one should be influence. by educational
surroundings, that place, far above all
Others, should be the centennial exhibit
ton. Scholars, scientists and sayans have
assembled in intellectual groupings to
devise means for the discriminating Of
man from the incubus OF ignorance that