. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. I04 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS niDstly find light horses for saddle and harness, and in the southern part of the country the heavier draft horses. Hanover devotes itself especially to the pro- duction of solid, weighty animals of noble. Blue-Whttf, AIaki", (( Coach Hoks 'l"\V(t \ears <)]d form for the saddle and harness ; they ha\'e great endiu'ance and a fiery temperament. From the days of George I of England, the first of the Ha
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. I04 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS niDstly find light horses for saddle and harness, and in the southern part of the country the heavier draft horses. Hanover devotes itself especially to the pro- duction of solid, weighty animals of noble. Blue-Whttf, AIaki", (( Coach Hoks 'l"\V(t \ears <)]d form for the saddle and harness ; they ha\'e great endiu'ance and a fiery temperament. From the days of George I of England, the first of the Hanoverian kings, eight of these horses have drawn the royal coach on all state occasions, their last appearance being at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee i]i iSgj. Oldenburg and Friesland stand quite apart from the rest of Germany in their production of horses. The Oldenburgs are especially known as fine, large, heax-y carriage horses; the head is well formed, the neck and shoulders handsome, the withers high, and the legs strong!)' muscled but often thick and coarse about the knees. They are not as noble in their conformation as the 1 lanove- i"ians, but they excel them in their docility and fine action. In the Rhenisli pro\-inces and throughout all southern Germany the heavy cart or work horse takes the first rank. He is usual!)' of Belgian origin, thougli in sonie places we find the hea\')' Englisli aiiimal. CO The race of the Pinzgau, originally the wild horse of the Noric Alps of Austria, is still found in southern Bavaria, and is much em- ployed in Munich to draw the trucks of the breweries. It takes its name from the valley of Pinzgau near Salzburg. This race is considered as descending, without admixture of any kind, from the ancient wild horse of the Alps, which, in the days of the Romans, lived in a savage state among the mountains. In the neighborhood of Munich there is also a light-weight, primitive horse, called the Feldmoching (from the village of that name),
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