ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 



PART I. FARM ANIMALS 

 CHAPTER I 

 THE HORSE 



Taming the Wild Horse. Who tamed and rode 

 the first wild horse and how he did it, we shall never 

 know; but it was an important event for mankind. 

 It happened long ages ago, before men began to write 

 their doings in books. We know that horses lived 

 in the time of the cave men, for we find remains of 

 horses and rude pictures of them scratched on stone 

 in caves and sand drifts. The cave men hunted these 

 wild horses for meat and for their skins. 



Variety in Size. The horse was then much smaller 

 than he is now. He was about the size of a wild pony. 

 The wild horses that came to live in mild climates 

 where food was plentiful began to grow larger, with 

 heavier limbs and stronger muscles; but those that 

 passed into cold, bleak lands where food was scarce, 

 grew small like the ponies of the Shetland Islands. 



The Horse's Foot. The bones and fossils of the 

 ancient horse show that he was once less than 

 twenty-four inches in height. He had a spreading 



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