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saddle purposes. In mule-breeding experiments in the Bel- 

 gian Congo, it has been found that the Senegal jack is readily 

 acclimatized, while with the Poitou and Italian jack, trouble 

 was frequently experienced. 



In the French colonies of western Africa, the horse is the 

 most important animal for riding and driving. Arabian and 

 Barb breeds are preferred. Horses are extensively bred 

 throughout these French colonies, and a large percentage even 

 of the natives in Senegal, Sudan, and Guinea are the proud 

 owners of saddle horses. In Dahomey, on the other hand, 

 the horse is not a common driving or riding animal. In the 

 French West Africa colonies, the government has established 

 studs and breeding stations at a number of convenient loca- 

 tions for the purpose of giving help and encouragement in 

 the improvement of horses throughout the territory. Among 

 the Sudanese, the ass is a symbol of captivity. The chiefs of 

 these natives, therefore, never own jacks but many breeds 

 of jacks are used by the common natives. Mules are generally 

 popular and widely employed for work purposes throughout 

 French Africa. 



The thoroughbred horse originally came from the Ara- 

 bian or Libyan native horse of northern Africa, and a similar 

 type of horse prevails throughout Arabia, Turkey, Persia, 

 and neighboring states. Not much success has been had with 

 horses in southern India. In the native states further north, 

 horses are a common sight, but are mostly of pony size and 

 with Arabian blood. Ponies are extremely numerous in Ben- 

 gal, the Federated Malay States, and Java. In Java, the favor- 

 ite pony is the so-called Sandalwood pony. The horses of 

 Borneo and the Philippine Islands are much like those in Java. 

 In Madagascar, the horse apparently does not thrive well and 

 the natives use oxen for the most part. In Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America, the saddle type of horse is the one in greatest 

 demand. In various parts of tropical South America, the 

 horse is becoming a more and more important animal for work 



