. Australian Garden and Field. September, 1913 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 175 , About half a million hcforo , the Christian era the creature had } assmiicd the form kin)\vn hy scien- tilic investijjators as rrejovalski's horse. This animal is believed ' to have Iwen abont tvwlve hands in hoijjht, instead of about leig-hteen inches, as determined by the earli- ' est fossils. The w-eij'-ht of this twelve-hands horse is supposed to ha^•e been alfout 4t)resent-'day breeds and types of horse have sprung, or, rather, have been built up by man's skill in breeding, toge- ther with the influenre of cl
. Australian Garden and Field. September, 1913 THE GARDEN AND FIELD. 175 , About half a million hcforo , the Christian era the creature had } assmiicd the form kin)\vn hy scien- tilic investijjators as rrejovalski's horse. This animal is believed ' to have Iwen abont tvwlve hands in hoijjht, instead of about leig-hteen inches, as determined by the earli- ' est fossils. The w-eij'-ht of this twelve-hands horse is supposed to ha^•e been alfout 4t)resent-'day breeds and types of horse have sprung, or, rather, have been built up by man's skill in breeding, toge- ther with the influenre of climate, food, and general environments. It would seem that prehistoric man utilized the prehistoric horse only as food, or, i>ossiblv, used; his skin for clothing. This is, how- ever, bare conjecture based on de- duction. It also appears that! the horse was first used by man—otiier than possibly for food and clothing —previous to a few thnusand vears before the days of King Solomon, when he was employed for carry- ing on warfare. The horse of to- day in his present form is not the h'orse originally created. It was left for man as he advanced to create tvpes of horses adatrted to his various needs. Of all crea- tures on earth the horse may rightly be considered the most abnormal; all improved breeds are of recent origin, and their charac- teristics are not altosrether due, as some believe, to heredity. The ass and the zebra are believed to have had tbeir origin in the original i8-inch oat-like creature, which to some extent had the stripes of the zebra. The wild ass and, the zebra have simply been left to shift for thetragelves, while the other branch of the same gemu's, which is called the horse, has received particular attention from man, and become his servant and [yet. As man has 'devcloi)ed, so has the horse developed. In countries* wlure there are Ijio development in man has not been a predominating feature. The Arab of the desert developed a horse adapte
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