Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . an Andalusian stallionbrought from Spain at an early day. They were largely raised, duringthe last century and the first part of the present century, for exportationto the West India Islands for the use of the families of the only gait was a pace of the most perfect and easy-going descrip-tion. They are repute
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . an Andalusian stallionbrought from Spain at an early day. They were largely raised, duringthe last century and the first part of the present century, for exportationto the West India Islands for the use of the families of the only gait was a pace of the most perfect and easy-going descrip-tion. They are reputed to have been so easy-going that ladies could ride CYCLOPEDIA or LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. them forty miles a day for many days in succession without experiencingexcessive fatigue. Tliat they were horses of great ])ottom, and some-times of extraordinary speed, is undoubtedly true. The Colonial divine,Dr. McSparren, in his America Dissected, speaking of the horses ofVirginia, says: There were plenty of a small sort of horses — the l)estin the world, like the little Scotch Galloways ; and tis no extraordinaryjourney to ride from sixty to seventy miles in a day. I have often, buton larger pacing liorses, rode fifty, nay, sixty, miles a day, even here in. CHAMPION GAITED SADDLE MARE LADY GLENN. New England, where the roads are rough, stony and uneven. Again,speaking of the Narragansett pacer particularly, as an animal for export,he says : They are remarkable for swift pacing , and I have seen someof them pace a mile in a little moie than two minutes, and a good dealless than three. The good doctor probably did not hold a timing-watchon them The stoiy, however, is fully as credible as that oth sr story ofFlying Childers having ruu a mile in a minute. WJMMWl)»fl-!|< r- Ft
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