Y8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



1821, the same mare was covered by a very fine black Arabian 

 horse, and produced successively three foals, and although she had 

 not seen the Quagga since 1816, they all bore his curious and une- 

 quivocal markings. 



Since the occurrence of this case numerous others have been 

 observed, a few of which may be mentioned. Mr. McGillivray 

 says, that in several foals in the royal stud at Hampton Court, 

 got by the horse "Action," there were unmistakable marks of 

 the horse " Colonel." The dams of these foals were bred from by 

 Colonel the previous year. 



A colt, the property of the Earl of SuflSeld, got by "Laurel," so 

 resembled another horse, " Camel," that it was whispered and even 

 asserted at Newmarket that he must have been got by " Camel." 

 It was ascertained, however, that the mother of the colt bore a foal 

 the previous year by " Camel." 



Alexander Morrison, Esq., of Bognie, had a fine Clydesdale mare 

 which in 1843 was served by a Spanish ass and produced a mule. 

 She afterwards had a colt by a horse, which bore a very marked 

 likeness to a mule — seen at a distance, every one sets it down at 

 once as a mule. The ears are nine and one-half inches long, — the 

 girth not quite six feet, stands above sixteen hands high. The 

 hoofs are so long and narrow that there is a difiSculty in shoeing 

 them, and the tail is thin and scanty. He is a beast of indomitable 

 energy and durability, and highly prized by his owner. 



Numerous similar cases are on record,* and it appears to have 

 been known among the Arabs for centuries, that a mare which has 

 first borne a mule, is ever after unfit to breed pure horses ;f and 

 the fact seems now to be perfectly well understood in all the mule- 

 breeding States of the Union. 



A pure Aberdeenshire heifer, the property of a fiirmer in Forgue, 

 was served with a pure Teeswater bull to which she had a first 

 cross calf. The following season the same cow was served with a 

 pure Aberdeenshire bull, the produce was in appearance a cross- 

 bred calf, which at two years old had long horns ; the parents were 

 both hornless. 



A small flock of ewes, belonging to Dr. W. "Wells in the island 

 of Grenada, were served by a ram procured for the purpose ; — the 



* It was long ago stated by Haller, that when a mare had a foal by an ass and 

 afterwards another by a horse, the second offspring begotten by the horse never- 

 theless approached in character to a mule. 



+ See Abd el Kader's letter. 



