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CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



In good Hungarian studs, the brood mares and their 

 foals are kept in paddocks, and, if thought necessary, 

 are housed at night. The yearhngs, after the colts have 

 been castrated, are turned out about March, with the 

 two and three year-olds, on the open puszta {veldt) by 

 the csikos (cow-boys), who generally ride old barren mares, 

 and keep the animals together with their long whips. 

 The young stock have to live off what they can find during 



Fig. 535. — Hungarian Cavalry lemount. 



their outing, which lasts till October, and they and their 

 csikos have no artificial shelter. The man gets a weekly 

 supply of bread, bacon and salt, but rarely a warm meal, 

 except when he kills some game and roasts it for himself. 

 The climate during summer and autumn in those parts 

 is very hot and dry. In October, the herd is driven 

 home, housed at night, and kept in paddocks during the 

 day. The csikos give a particular name to each youngster, 

 who begins to recognise it in a remarkably short time. 



