144 THE BEEED8 OF LIVE-STOCK 



in the extreme cold, and the writer has known one to winter 

 perfectly in the mountains of Pennsylvania. His coat, 

 while fine and silky in spring and summer, in winter is as 

 thick as a beaver's and has an undercoating of fur-like hair. 

 170. Organizations and records. The Arab Horse 

 Club is promoting the interests of the Arab horse and 

 registering both pure-breds and colts from Arab sires but 

 out of mares of other breeding. Arabian horses are now 

 eligible for registration in the American Stud-book and in 

 the General Stud-book of Great Britain. 



Literature. Roger D. Upton, Gleanings from the Desert of 

 Arabia, London (1881); Lady Anne Blunt, The Bedouin Tribes 

 of the Euphrates, 2 vols., London (1879); Same, A Pilgrimage to 

 Nejd, 2 vols., London (1881); Boucant, The Arab, the Horse of 

 the Future, Gay & Bird, Strand, London (1905). 



BARB AND TURK HORSES 

 By Carl W. Gay 



171. The Barb horse takes his name from his native 

 habitat, the so-called Barbary states of nothern Africa, 

 originally peopled by the Berber tribes. These states are 

 Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and Tripoli. The Barb is the 

 " Horse of the Sahara," of Daumas, the " North African " 

 or " Libyan " horse of Ridge way. The oriental group is 

 composed of the Barb, the Turk and the Arabian, although 

 most recent investigations indicate the Barb to have been 

 the real source of all oriental blood. A common error re- 

 sulting in much confusion is the use of the term Arabian 

 in a sense synonymous with oriental. 



172. History in Egypt. History first records the horse 

 under domestication in Egypt, and it is thought that his 



