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FARMERS' REGISTER— HISTORY OF THE HORSE. 



Genesee flats wcro. harvested in two hours and a 

 quarter. 



In what condition is the wheat left, and how 

 is the work done, where the grain is lodged? 



The machine leaves the wheat in gavels large 

 enough I'or a sheaf, and where the o-rain stands 

 well enough to make (iiir work with a cradle, it 

 leaves the straw in as good condition to bind as 

 the gave'.s of a good reaper. Whether the grain 

 stands or is lodged is of little consequence, except 

 as to the appearance of the sheaf, and the neces- 

 sity of savino; more straw, when lodged, than is 

 desirable. The condition of the sheaf, when the 

 grain is lodged, depends much upon the adroitness 

 of the raker. 



What number of ha,nds, and what strength of 

 team is necessary to manage the machine advan- 

 tageously? 



"Two men, one to drive the team and the other 

 to rake off the wheat, and two horses work the 

 machine; but when the grain is heavy, or the land 

 mellow, a change of horses is necessary, as the 

 gait of the horses is too rapid to admit of a heavy 

 draft. The horses go at the rate of four to five 

 miles an hour, and when the growth of straw is 

 not heavy, a fair trot of the team is not too 

 much. 



Is the machine liable to derangement and de- 

 struction from its own motion? 



This is a question which cannot be so directly 

 aiiswered as the others. We have onlj^ used the 

 machine to cut about fifty acres, and have had no 

 trouble; judging from appearance so far, should 

 say it was as little subject to this evil as anj' ma- 

 chinery whatever. The wear upon the cutting 

 part being so little as to require not more than fif- 

 teen minutes sharpening in a day, there is no loss 

 of time on this score. 



Is the sheaf a good one to thrash? 



The man who has fed the thrashing machine 

 with the grain of twenty acres cut by this ma- 

 chine, says the sheaves are much better than 

 those of cradled grain, and quite as good as those 

 of a reaper. 



There is one more advantage beyond ordinary 

 inquiries, of consequence where so much grain is 

 raised as in this valley; be the grain ever so ripe, 

 there is no waste of grain by any agitation of the 

 straw, and all the waste which can take place must 

 arise from the handling and shaking in binding. 



I am yours, &c. 



WILLIAM C. DWaGHT. 



Moscow, Liv. CO., Nov. lith, 1834. 



N. B. The machine we used was intended 

 only for upland; but by some little alterations and 

 additions, we used it v,'-ith equal facility on all 

 kinds of soil; and it can be used on any farm so 

 clean from stumps and stones as not to endanger 

 the blockinff of the wheels. 



From the Library of Useful Knowledge, Farmer's Series. 

 GENERAL HISTORY OF THE HORSE. 



[Continued from page 547, Vol. II.] 



The East Indian Horse. 



We will now travel further eastward, and look 



at the breeds of horses in our Indijui possessions. 



Fust, we have the Toorfcy, originally from aToor- 



konian and a Persian, beautiful in his form, grace- 



ful in his action, and docile in his temper. It is 

 said that, when skilfully managed, the grandeur 

 and stateliness of his carriage are equal to what 

 the warmest imagination can conceive of the horse: 

 his spirit rising as his exertions are required, he 

 exhibits to his beholders an apj)earance of fury in 

 the performance of his task, yet preserving to his 

 rider the utmost playfulness and gentleness. 



Next comes the Iranee, well limbed, and his 

 joints closely knit, and particularly powerful in the 

 quarters, but with scarcely sufficient spirit, and his 

 ears large and loose. 



The patient and docile Coznkee is deep in the 

 girth, powerful in the fore-arm. but with large 

 head, and sadly cat-iiammed; hard}', and calcula- 

 ted for long journeys andse>'ere service. 



The Mojinnis have spirit, beauty, speed, and 

 perseverance. 



The Tazsee is slight, hollow-backed, and, for 

 that reason perhaps, although deficient in strength 

 and leaving as it were his hind legs behind him, 

 and likewise irritable in temper, yet sought after 

 on account of the peculiar easiness of his pace. 



A sale of horses near the Company's stud at 

 Hissar, is tlius described by an excellent judge. 

 "Not less than one thousand horses were shown. 

 They were all above fourteen hands and a half in 

 heiglit, high-crested, and showy-looking horses. 

 The great defect seemed a want of bone below the 

 knee, which is indeed general to all the native 

 horses throughout India; and also so great a ten- 

 dency to fulness in the hocks, that, in England, it 

 would bethought half of them had blood spavins." 



The Chinese Horse. 



This breed is small, weak, ill-formed, without 

 spirit, and altogether undeserving of notice. 

 The Persian Horse. 



Returning westward we find the Persian next 

 in estimation, and deservedly so, to the Arabian. 

 The head is almost equally beautifid, the cru|)per 

 superior; he is equal in speed, but far inferior in 

 endurance. The whole frame is more developed 

 than in the Arabian. 



The Persian horses were celebrated for many a 

 century before the Arabians Avere known, or even 

 existed. They constituted, in ancient times the 

 best cavalrj' of the east. The native Persian was 

 so highly prized, that Alexander considered one 

 of them the noblest gift he could bestow, and when 

 the kings of Parthia would propitiate their divini- 

 ties by the most costly sacrifice, a Persian horse 

 was offered on the altar. An entertaining travel- 

 ler (Sir R. Ker Porter) bears testimony that they 

 have not now degenerated. He gives the follow- 

 ing account of this breed. 



"The Persian horses never exceed fourteen or 

 fourteen and a half hands high, yet certainly, in 

 the whole, are taller than the Arabs. Those of 

 the desert and country about Hi! lab run very small, 

 but are full of bone and of good speed. General 

 custom feeds and waters them only at sun-ri.seand 

 sun-set, when they are cleaned. Their usual pro- 

 vender is barley and chopped straw, which, if the 

 animals are piqueted, is put into a nose-bag and 

 hung from their heads; but if stabled, it is thrown 

 into a small lozenge-shaped hole left in the thick- 

 ness of the mud-wall for that purpose, but much 

 higher up than the line of our mangers, and there 

 the animal eats at his leisure. Hay is a kind of 

 food not known here. The bedding of the horse 



