The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-01-12
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4 New Type Of Horse.

A New Type Of Horse.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is about
Ito try the experiment of breeding pure
Arabian horses with Percheron thorough.
breds, hoping thereby to raise in this
country breed Of horses superior to
anythipg We now have. E. w. Cottrell,
the superintendent of Senator Palmer's
fine farm near Detroit, sailed from New
York on Wednesday last on the Aller.
He will land at southampton, and from
there go to La Perche, in France, the
home OF the celebrated Percheron horse.
Air. Cottrell will purchase at L. Perche
thirty or forty Percheron stations and
mares for Senators Palmer's farm. These
horses will not be imported until spring,
3 bnt Mr.. Palmer's agent goes thus early
Ito secure the pick of the market. Mr..
sSCottre1l viii also consult NJ. Charles Dn
Hays, the, head of the Bureau of Hippgnes
in the Department Of Agriculture of
France. as to the best method of trans.
porting Arabian horses from Damascus
to Marseilles, whence they can be taken
To Havre for shipment to America with
the Percherons. IF Mr.. Cottrell receives
ID formation from NJ. Du Hays re-
garding the easy transportation of horses
from Arabia he will go. to Jerusalem,
I and, with the United States Consul there,
Henry Gilman, go over to Damacus.
There he will purchase FIVE full. blooded
Arabian horses and return with them TO-
France and the United States.
Senator Palmer has an idea that by long
and intelligent in.breeding, q new type
ofhorse may be created, orthe best quality
of the old type re enforced by the crossing
of the Arab horse upon the Percheron3
mare, and vice versa. II his experiments
warrant il, he will continue this in breed:
ing the Arab horses are small, from
fourteen! fifteen hands high, and from,
them have sprung all the celebrated
yhorses Of England and America. The
oughbreds Of England are all tracea.
bla back to- one ofthree breeds -Byerly's
Funk, the Harley Arabian, and the God.
al6n Arabian, and the infusion .of Ara
= ~. n. -
bisn blood into some of the standard
stock of America has resulted in improv-
thesymmetry. and possibly the endurance
ssof the American trotter. If Senator
4 APalmer's agent finds that the transship-
ment Of horses from the Damacus seaport
s to Marseilles is impracticable he will go
to Tangiers and see what can be done
toward securing the barb or Arab horse
there.
There is q tradition in Arabia, which is
handed down and accepted as fact the
world over, that no full.blooded Arab
horse is ever disposed of for money, or
offered for sale in any way, and that they
! are never used by their owners on a
peaceful journey, war apd parade being
the only occasions when an Arab horse is
used Senator Palmer says the latter
statement may be true, but that it is not
strns that they are never disposed of at a
gsale. He expects to have no trouble in
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purchasing the fine animals he desires.
III the thoroughbred horses in Arabia
are owned by the war chiefs and the
wealthy and distinguished citizens. This
as the reason that the coarser, inferior
breeds are never reared. The celebrated
Arab horses had their origin in the dis
trict of Nejd, the very place where they
are to be found to-day. Capture in war,
gilt, or legacy are the only recognized.
modes Of transfer ofthess horses. Hence
-she commercial export Nejd horses has
never been established. All works that
have been written about Arabia and the
celebrated horses say that he is deceiver
whoever boasted of having purchaseda q
horse there. A few, the Arabians admit,
have been carried across the frontier by
war victors,a and few given as presents
TO distinguished people. Gray is the pre-
ssysiling color of Arab horses, but some
are chestnut, some white, others sorrel,
q few mottled gray or black, but dark
! bay Arabian horses do not exist. The
prohibition Of the expectation of Nejd
horsesis nothing more than asystem of
monopoly BY protective system, and no.
one seems to gain by it. Senator Palmer
has given great amount of study to the
gsubiect Of breeding thoroughbreds. His
affent has detailed instructions, and they
hope to bring into this country for breed
ing purposes some of the finest Arabian