Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-03-12
A thousand horse-the wid-the free
Like waves that follow DER the sea,
Came thickly laundering on"

who passed most of his life in Asia thus writes "Asac
Horses:
ponies correctly applied every
in Asia including Arabs judged by English Standards except
Twcomans.
The Turcoman animal the only that
up idea Of horse averaging fifteen hands, and being
sixteen He manees maneless horse
racing build and capable doing distances very
little ustenance.
is fact like all the Asia devel
oped by practice pundern which purpose great dis
be taversed several days
succession with feed except what the riders carry with
them.
"Thee horses will gaop week eight days together doing
hundred hundred and twenty hundred and
fifty miles day; being fed, rather "bolused time
with balls barley -four kneaed up with sheepta which the
riders carry in their debags AT other times they pcketed
(always heavily cothed) fed barley and "amaun
bruised what called "boosah in the Punab) several hand
u of the former being mixed carefully immense nosebag
"obra" holding bushe spring they
soled fortnight three green green herb
age like Persian and Turkish horses which their
resembles
Before making their atamans foray they gaoped
eighteen miles day for fortnight and barley meal and mutton
fat bouses gradually substituted for barley and chopped
They have large coarseookng heads and often nes their
points good Their peculiar small pointed
turning nwardsa popularity noticeable many Punabee Breeds
which suspect they inherited the Turcoman; country
bred horses in India being like the natives, often mang of
different
The Tartar or Krghiz pony or horse quite different
animal being type approaching the Chagoshee the Yabboo
Yakand pony Booa pony Thbet all the breeds
are closely related.
MANY the Cossac animals this type They
(exceptng the better bred horses which large
head we'll big barrel well ribbed up short legs and dense
and tail They weight carriers stand almost roughn9
hardship, and may be in the depth winter with the
thermometer several degrees below apparently enjoying the
cod-rong in the scaping with their feet
bite a the withcred grass stubble beneath
These the animals that the Taa of former times used
make their raids during the Turkish invaons Austria and
Russia when the Tartar Khans Of the Crmea eudaoes OF the
Turks had supply contingent Of sixty thousand
irregular horse.
Thcse, acting guard the army
ravagcd the country and WIDE burnt villages carried off
and children and performed the aoci business INSOFAR
able from Mahomedan campaigning often penetrating leagues
beyond Vienna
ordinary times they raids account into
Poland campaigned against the Coac who keptup the
Russians check upon them Being often pursued and hard
pushed these occasions their animals obliged be fit
The training the best OF them often underwent preparation
something appang anyone unacquanted
with the strength constitution and iron hardness the Tartar
ponies would be completely incredible Their method of training
horse rather the ordeal they him pass through
considered suitable the pa-whch they admit used
to kill OF five who underwent it, and only
compatible with the possession OF an unlimited number of animals
ing nothing nothing keep being grazed steppe
all and half starved little dry fodder during the winter
was in this wise-
After picking likely rising cght-beforc
which horse allowed be selected for radnghcy
loaded him the saddle sand, only
the weight OF the rider but gradually increased eight days till
the horse had carried twenty twenty-five AS
weight increased the horses food
mnshcd He oed and walked six miles daily.
after the first eight days they gradually for other eight days
decreased the load still however decreasing the feed until the sack
empty finally giving him three days absolutely
nothing ALL but merely tightening the gths intervals
About the nineteenth day they worked him hard until
wead when they unadded him, poured buckets cc-cod
the animal from head tail He then pcketed all
peg the open stePpe, allowed Craze fed spangy
giving him every day little feed and rope
eight days after which he turned loose with the
herd usual
"a horse that had undergone this discipline considered