The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-10-15
HORSES OF ALL KINDS.
thousands Of Them That Do Not Con-
Under tho Head OF Usefnl Animal.

Vt ALI MINUS
!, Thousands Of Thorn That M No -.
Under tho Head Of Useful Animals
Very young students in their first n
tempts at composition often inform
us that the horse is a useful animal
Ihis sweeping generalization is subiec
10 important notifications before it i
accepted in all communities Their,
are many thousands of horses that tot
not IKE their progenitors, but go like
Inc wind where it listeth and are lookef
upon as intolerable nuisances in ths
civilized regions they sometimes invade.
our Australian friends, for instance
are no lovers of the horse in his mn.
tanned state, and some of the colonie.
SCI price upon his head and do all
tney can to stimulate movements for
ms destruction. Seven thousand wild
horses were shot in New South Wales
alone in 1875. These rovers of the
plain play the mischief with domestic.
ated animals when they come among
.nem' and the colonists are very much
dlsgusted to observe that the noble
morse, relapsing into barbarian and
forgetting his oats and the other com.
Iorts OF civilization, runs off with hi.
wno brethren who have not enjoyed
ms superior advantages
IL must be confessed that our horses
need the restraints imposed upon them
10 prevent them from disrracinp their
ancestors, who were certainly doma.-
ticated when they were introduced into
tins country. Years ago it used 70 he
the custom in our southwestern terri
tory to brand the young stock. and
oven many work animals. and turn
them loose to shift for themselves for a
year or two When they were wanted |
Iney were always as wild as Mexican
mustangs Mr.. Powell wrote a boolr
On the best methods of tanning wild
horses. The specimens on which he
,xerted his talents as a tanner were. for
ne most part. formerly domesticated
animals who had forgotten all about
heir restraints while wandering ove-
ne plains OF our southwestern terri
DRY.
travellers in western territories ara
% longer In danger of such an eruption
norsehesh as Murray described in
is travels in North America He
OF only witnessed stampede of thou ,
ands OF panic-stricken horses. but the
wing torrent swept along toward and .
yer his camp, trampling skins and
ried meats into the ground. knockino ,
own some OF the tents and taking with | !
lem all the horses except his riding !
are, who vainly struggled to break | .
u fasteniEgs They still range in
ucn smaller herds than formerly ON !,
e plains OF the upper Colorado; but :
e wild horse, like the buffalo. has =
actically disappeared before the adj :
nee of the white man.
In spite of the experience of the An :,
'aiians. many people, chiefly savagesL II
We been able to turn the wild horses r.
good account Hundreds of thou -
ADS OF Mexican mustangs have been :,
iuced to servitude. The wild horse :.
the South American pampas. which ~
zee centuries ago, only fifteen wears 4;
er the horse was introduced from :.
rope, had spread to regions as remote II,
ratagonia, has been tanned by thou. ar
Ids and has become the useful .ar. 90
1T OF Indian tribes.
'aturalists often discuss the ones ~
2 whether there is now in the world -:
n creature as an aboriginal. or r.
" wild horse. We know very well *
the wild horses of the western -, -,
aisphere are all descendants of 49,;
iesticated animals. Where. then -
ne aboriginal wild horse to be found? ~
question will probably never be INC
led. Mr.. j. 81. Steel, who recently -
an interesting paper on wild csr
ses" before the Bombay Natural an
tory Society, thinks the evidence il -
avor OF the existence of the wild ~,
'e in Central Asia Gesner. the KIM
It authority on zoology of the six -
tn century, was of the same So,
ion, but the fact has often been ~ .
toned, and the assertion cannot ta;r
lively be made that the wild horse an .
le mountain region which the Rus nh,,
are now exploring and of which bo,s
have secured some specimens, is Nor
himself the descendant of ancient t.n.
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