Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-19

labor before the age six years. when they require
them the services and compel them incredible fatigue
travelling three days without resting and passing four
five days with or better nourshment than handful
grass given eight hours day quencng
their thirst These horses however which robust and
their country lose their vgor decline
China, the Indies but thrive very
Turkey and Persia.
They good saddle PAGERS by
Their owners Gelon Samatans make
mails supply with food they their flesh this day.
we'll the curd lac of the mares milk mentioned
by many ancient writers.
"The Taars have in all ages been famous under different
their love of horses, and skill in riding.
1T practice with says author who the his:
tory the conquest China by this people (Paafox) tie the
their brides their grdes and by the motion their
bodies alone govern and direct their horses putting them into
different attitudes and making them perform variety evouons
By this method they have their hands liberty their weapons
which they manage with remarkable skill and for which they
have been distinguished in all ages beyond other nations
will hold their bows in the hand which they hold their bdes
the draw the bow and guide their horse with great
address, always riding with their rrups short order to col
ec themselves better and be able when they
going attack enemy and strike blow
"Cicassia Mngea and the adjacent parts stored with
horses which better mould and proportion than those
of Taa and consequently admired and valued The Crcas
equal the greatest fatigue and celebrated for
The nations OF Asia and Africa except the Chinese geld
their horses Some kingdoms Europe likewise have yet
adopted the practice Casaon deprves the animal of aconsde
able his strength spirit and obs him fact of his
leaves him mutaed dastardy and
but the time makes him mild patient obedent and
consequently filter for purposes and agreeable
riders
The Russian horses SMALL but hardy able
great fatigue, without suffering much their spirit strength
constitution In those places where the soil is richer and heritage
abundant the breed is larger and OF a mould
The Kamuck horses somewhat higher than the Russian
horses and tough and strong in their constitution
be able three hundred English miles in three days
They ub and winter solely the great deserts
which between the Dom Voga, Walk
they scrape away with their the dead grass
which under it, and the OF young and shrubs They
very the damage they sustained from the
rgors the wnty After midsummer the grass becomes
very dry and hard when they the great meadows which
the banks of the Voa and other rivers They great
herds four five hundred and thousand horse Such
herd called in the Russian and all the Tartaran and Kmuck
languages Iab00n They excellent and
Voga great ease;
that when Russian has bought them and brings this side
river miles English place
its the Kamuck lived the horse will pass the and
way the Ia6o0n They cheap be bought
first mbc shlngs sterling each horse They
seldom put draw carriages but devoted chiefly the saddle
They brought with difficulty eat barley, any kind of
grain preferring them grass either fresh dry and whered
"he Nogay horses breed belonging the Tarta which
Nogay tribe subjects Kalmuc Khan
those Nogayan Tarars who part the subjects
Grim live Bender Ocha
KOf about the Dnester and called lcdSaH lcdSaH
in the Tartaan language which word signifies thousand
because originally this horde amounted to that number.
The Nogy Tartars in Russia live between the Don Voga
and Yak among the Kamuc having their pastures assigned well
the Kamucs by the Kahn They northwards during
the about Mchacmas they repass the VOa and live
the south the Ruban and Tchcassc These horses
extremely hardy and live in the the horses of
the Kamuck but stronger higher and trained draw carriages
they sold the Russians fifteen rubes each
The TuComans, nation living between the Caspian Sea
and the lake Ara have horses the those of the
Nogay Tarars
The Bashks nation subject the Russians and have
horses and better than the Nogay horse and
counted most excellent amblers.
The better will sell fifty sixty
evenly rubes EACH in proportion their amblc esteemed