Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-01
THE HORSE.
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets.
copyright Secured.
Continued fyom last 7Oeek.
NATURAL HISTORY

might thus Mr. Waeon records the
amare which produced successfully three oals without tails
tae might have been formed like the taie OF
dogs and Russian breed of horses said to have cued
hair Aara relates Paraguay horses occasionally born
generally destroyed with hair like that the head of
and this popularity transmitted even to hat-breeds it's
correlation that such horses have short and
tails and their hoof of peculiar shape like those of mule
Il" scarcely possible doubt that the long continued selection
qualities servceabe has been the chief the oma
ton the several breeds the horse Look dayhorse and
how we'll adapted he is draw heavy weights and how unlike
appearance any allied wild animal The English racehorse
the commngled blood of Arabs Turks,
and Bab but selection which carried during early times
England together with training have made him very different
animal from his parcnocks AS writer in India who evidently
the pure Arab WELL asks who looking present
breed raceose could have conceived that they the result
of the of the Arab horse and African mare? The
marked that running for the Goodwood Cup the first
descendants of Arabian Turkish and Persian horses, allowed
eighteen pounds weight and when both parents
these discount of thrsX pounds 1t notorious that
Arabs about the pedigree their horses
and this implies and continued breeding See
ing what has been done England by careful breeding doubt
that the Arabs likewise have produced during the of
turtles marked effect the qualities their horses But
much farther back in time the Bible hear OF studs carefully
kept breeding and horses imported high prices from
ous countries We may therefore conclude that whether the
existing breeds the horse have proceeded
aboriginal stocks yet that great of change has
suited from the direct action the conditions of life and probably
still greater the ongcontnued selection by
slight individual differences.
with domeicaed quadruped and birds, certain
cood marks either strongly inherited tend reappear
after having been lost for long time AS this subject will hereafter
be be Of Importance will give full of the color
ing of horses All English Breeds however unlike in size and
pearance and several those India and the Malay archipelago
present similar range and diversity OF color The English
horse however, is said be dun-cooed but dun and
creamcood horses considered by the Arabs worthless
and fit only for Jews ride these n have been removed by
longcontnued selection Horses every color and such wide
Y different kinds dahores cobs and ponies all occasion
ally dapped in the same manner as is conspicuous with gray
.l;ol4o
the aboriginal horse but OF analogous variation for
sometimes dapped and have in the British Muse
hybrid from the and zebra dapped its hinder quarters
BY the expression analogous variation and that shall
often have occasion variation occurring species
variety which resembles normal character another dis
tnc species variety Analogous variations may arise will be
explained in future chapter from forms with SINH
lar constitution having been exposed similar condOnor from
forms having reacqud through character
herited by the other form from their pogenoro from
both forms having the character
shall Immediately occasionally exhibit tendency
become striped large part their bodies and know
that in the varieties the domestic species
stripes readily into spots and cloudy maven the cubs
the uniformly colored lion being spotted with dark marks
lighter grOundwe may suspect that the dappg the horse
which has been noticed by authors with SURPRISE modfca
ton vestige of a tendency to become striped.
This tendency in the horse become striped several
interesting fact Horses all coor of the diverse
Breeds in various parts the world have dark stripe
tending along the spine, from the the tall but this
common that need enter into particulars Occasionally horses
tranverse barred the legs chiefly the under side and
rarely they have distinct stripe the shoulder like that
the shoulder of the broad dark patch representing
Before entering any details premise that the
cooed vague and includes three groups of coOrs that
between which graduates light
bay believe called alOWdun
Ondy aden aeoor mouse-dun which graduates
ashcoor and lastly dark-dun, between brown and black In
England have examined rather large lghtybut faowdun
Devonshe pony with conspicuous stripe along the back with
light stripes the under sides of its front legs and
with four parallel stripes each shoulder OF these stripes
the Posteo very minute and faint the anterior
the other hand long and broad interrupted the