Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-19
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
From Advance Sheets.
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Continued from last 7oeek.
ASIATIC, AFRICAN AND AUSTRALIAN
HORSES

great warmly clothed with fes carefully goomed
and fed, and kept m stables often underground.
This however, does not by to
duce sofness of grit these animals doing hundred miles
cheeruy and roughng it, OCCASION almost well the
Tarars
can animal this breed or rather Karabagh omerya
PROVINCE Russian rue) which much the
a rubbing off his blanket night, when
journey which he would do with the thermometer
yet appeared suffer the least from the cod though his
fine Arabs's'
In fact all the horses Minor Central Asia, Tarary,
whether taken groomed fed and clothed the Persian
and Turkish fashion, their chance
over-woked and hatared like those of the Cossack and
Taa possess nvincibe hardness constitution chiefly
perhaps owing climate but believe great also to u
dcous system breeding and working They have great endurance
which, however they lose India the they approach the op
the they get within the range the the softer
they become There ocrable breed for India in the Deccan
in the old Mahaa days. and there good breed
although impeuou in Kattywar, but the climate of Katywar
approaches that of Arabia than other part OF India
however hot cold in winter is dry The question
of climate has deal to do with good breeds horses We that
English breed transported Australia the Cape though
roughly comparison with home animals and badly
fed begin display endurance and stouness those dry eli
rvalng the Asaic Per Kghiz pony how
good transported England perform the cats
well fed and cared for that he does in hastared state his
native steppe He would miss the dry elastic air and familiar
pane while his would begin damp eli
mate and on muddy roads.
TARTARs sTEpTEs.
horses hardy the the Krghz steppcs
says Captain Fred Burnaby in his celebrated Ride Khva
The feeble die OF starvation in hard winters
The Kghs clothe their horses in the coolest winters
They get instead OF Early in the spring the animals
gain flesh and strength and capable OF performing immense
Marches ride OF hundred miles end not being in
Tartary
The Tartary horses generally well shaped they cannot
gaop very but they distances without
forage, hating.
For very long journeys they employ horses carries
little and from time to time they change horses
"In 1870 Count Borkh Russian general made forced march
hundred and sixtyx miles days difficult
country days they marched sixty miles through rocky
dehe and barren sandy destitute of forage and The
heat excessive during the day. sometimes reaching hundred
and degrees Fahrenheit while the nights cold and
frosty There only twelve horses with backs which had
been ridden by Coac but by hcmen who had neglected to
adjust their saddles properly before mounting.
Captain urnaby who weighed with his coddcying Clothes
twenty-five purchased for his journey
black horse about hands high with gauy painted
and brde for IS.
1.-The guide and myself pushed ambng pace
peculiar horses of the seppes which them keep up
for wenfOur hours emergency Not the hunts
mans ogge when returning with his pack the kennel but much
more jOltng. Il
owe galoped Syr Daryon and
pulled up Nurozofs hoste We had ridden three hundred
and miles in nine days and hours thus averaging
than forty miles day, with interval only days
having previously carried five hundred miles With my
twenty he had neither during journey
and had gaoped the last miles twenty
five minutes"
OF these Asiatic horses Beengcr writes:
The horses of China stand better estimation than
of India. They weak, spiress and made parts
the kingdom they do not exceed three feet in height
almost all of them gelt and dastardy tmd
be unfit for that may be said that this country
queed by the Tartar horses which extremely
war; and although but strong nervous
proud full Of spirit bold and active They have good
what their heads weshaped and ean small
The orehand long and stiff and their legs overong with all
these mpeecons they be accounted good sevceabe
horses being uncOnquerabe by labor and endowed with podous
speed The Taar live with them almost in the
the Arabs do with their horses when they attain age
eioht months thew make their children