The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 EAST FRIESLAND HORSES—ELLIPTIC SPRING East Friesland Horses.—The East Friesland horse- producing district extends from Oldenburg on the east to Holland on the west, and from Osnabruch on the south to the North Sea. The welfare of this breed is entrusted to a very powerful society, called
The encyclopædia of the stable The encyclopædia of the stable: a complete manual of the horse, its breeds, anatomy, physiology, diseases, breeding, breaking, training and management, with articles on harness, farriery, carriages, etc. comprising a thousand hints to horse owners encyclopdiaofs00shaw Year: 1909 EAST FRIESLAND HORSES—ELLIPTIC SPRING East Friesland Horses.—The East Friesland horse- producing district extends from Oldenburg on the east to Holland on the west, and from Osnabruch on the south to the North Sea. The welfare of this breed is entrusted to a very powerful society, called the Agricultural Head Association of East Friesland, which officially inspects all three-year-old stallions each spring, and all adults in early autumn, while none but horses passed by the society as sound may leave the district. The type now bred produces a very serviceable and powerful, upstanding, bay-coloured harness horse. Brood mares are submitted to a most search- ing examination before they are entered in the Stud Book, a rule to which the prosperity of the breed may be largely attributed, whilst the custom of giving valuable prizes to the owner of the mare from which at least two foals suit- able for registration are obtained, and of carefully selecting all stallions for the district, is also to be commended. Eating Beds.—A most objectionable, though by no means uncommon practice, which even muzzling will not prevent in confirmed offenders. The most common course to pursue is to substi- tute moss or sawdust for straw as bedding ; but some horses will even eat moss, and many owners dislike the appearance of sawdust for a bed. A few drops of paraffin sprinkled on the straw, and then forking it well over, has been found to be a deterrent in the case of bed-eaters. Eel Mark.—The dark line or list which runs along the back of some horses from the withers to the root of the tail. (See Cleveland Bay.) Eild.—See Yeld. Elbow.—The upper joint of the fore-leg. (See
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