Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-14
The Oldenburg German Coach
Horse.
AMI HENRY COUNTY NEWS.

In our last weeks issue we inform
ed our readers that Henry Kolbe anC
his son, DR. Karl H. Kolbe, had be
come the owners of fine German
Coactrstallion; we will now try to
aive brief history of the class ol
horses known as the German Coach
horses:
These horses are imported from
East Friesland, in the northwestern
part of Hanover, and from Olden
burg, which two sections comprise
the northwestern part of Germany
and have the richest pasture grounds
and meadows in the bottoms and
marshes of the coast of the North sea
or German ocean, but is limited to
only about ten or twelve counties.
The climate is somewhat rougher
than our own, which renders the
horse very healthy, strong and dur
able.
Under the strict rules of the govern
ment the German Coach horse has
been bred in one line for centuries,
and history tells us that in 1908 Count
Emo III, of East Friesland, sent to
King james, of England, (the founder
of a more rational system of horse
breeding in that country four Fries
ian stations. History further tells
us that since war has ceased to be an
occupation of the powerful mobiles
and princes in that country, many of
them have made records in improv-
ing the original good stock and bring
ing it to a degree OF perfection before
unknown. The great German Coach
horse is the finest coach horse in the
world and of the highest type. His
points are advantageously placed
with deep and well proportional
body, strong and clean bone under
the knee, and his feet open, round
and tough. He possesses fine, keen
action, lifts his feet high, which gives
elegance to his pace and action; he
carries his head well, his neck being
elevated and very rangy, long and
well cut-up at throttle; fine ear, well
set; broad forehead, with large intel
ligent eye; fine disposition, short
back, strong loins, long quarters,
tail we'll set, with disposition to carry
both head and tail high. They run
in heighth from 15a o16a hands high,
weighing from 1900 to 1900 pounds.
They mature very young and are fit
to work at two years old. and for
breeding purposes they are horses
that produce all about one size, all
dark, dep color, and are the only
genuine coach and general purpose
horse. No horse can stand for SER
vice in Germany unless he either be-
longs to the government or has a GER
tificate of soundness, breeding and
individual appearance, issued by an
examining government committee
The owners of commissioned stall
lion are liable to prosecution if he
shall have in the same stable a non
commissioned stallion, although he
may be simply used for barn work.
When a horse has such certificate he
may stand for service anywhere in
the Empire.
Germany expends annually $780,
900 to promote and preserve the
purity Of her horses. Thus we find
they have been founded and built
upon the rock, and not on the sand,
and this foundation has given them
speed for long distance and great en-
durance. They have been so care
fully bred by the government that an
unsound one is seldom seen. In
hardness no breed can surpass them,
and in fertility and prepotency none
can equal them. They are the horse
now in general use in Germany
They are the great plow horse, and
the same team goes to the comodious
carriage and carries it's owner safely
and swiftly to market or over the
country at an easy, cheerful ten-mile-
an-hour gait; and again he goes to
the ponderous four-wheeled German
sugar beet wagon and draws to the