S4 IHE STALLION AND BROOD MARE. 



^o often tainted with some hereditary disorder or defec, 

 of body or temper — to deform and poison everything he 

 .s allowed to touch. The Arabians, after having brought 

 their breed of Horses to the highest degree of perfection 

 of which they consider them capable, are said to have 

 preserved their splendid qualities of great endurance 

 with highly organized matter and natural soundness of 

 limb, by prohibiting the use of stallions until approved 

 hy a public inspector. ^< Breeders of all kinds of Horses," 

 says Nimrod, <'but of the race-horse above all others, 

 scarcely require to be cautioned against purchasing or 

 breeding from mares, or putting them to stallions, con- 

 stitutionally inferior. By constitutionally inferior is 

 chiefly implied, having a tendency to fail in the legs and 

 feet during their training, which too many of our present 

 racing breed are given to — although the severity of train- 

 ing is not equal to what it was some years back. It 

 would be invidious to particularize individual sorts ; but, 

 says he, we could name stallions and mares from which 

 the greatest expectations w^ere raised, whose progeny 

 have sacrificed thousands of their owners' money, en- 

 tirely from this cause." After instancing numerous cases 

 to show the heritableness of diseases — glanders among 

 others — of horses, sheep, and cattle, "these conside- 

 lations," continues an eminent French writer. Professor 

 Dupuy, on the Veterinary art, " are to us of the greatest 

 moment, since we have it in our power by coupling and 

 crossing well-known breeds, to lessen the number of ani- 

 mals predisposed to these diseases. Acting up to these 

 ideas, our line of conduct is marked out. We must 

 banish from our establishments, designed to improve the 

 breed, such animals as show any signs of tuberculous 

 disease or any analogous affection." 



Thus much have we felt called upon to say, introduc- 

 tory of the following able dissertation on the condition 



