54 "GENERAL BEALE" " HEGIRA" "ISLAM," 



attacks through sporting journals ; but I have stood up to it all, and 

 now look upon my labors as having been productive of good results. 

 I have had one good, faithful man : and what he lacked in some ways 

 I made up, thankful he was temperate and faithful. It took courage, 

 firmness, and concentrated purpose, with quite a little information ; 

 and at this writing I am very bold to say that no such collection in one 

 family of horses, each and every one true to its type and pure in its 

 blood, upon which to found and establish a national horse, has before 

 been known upon this continent. Neither the English thoroughbred 

 running-horse, nor the French Percheron draught-horse, nor the Rus- 

 sian Orloff trotting-horse were equally well founded ; besides which, it 

 is purely American as a foundation. It boasts of no English creation, 

 nor French, nor Russian ; but does boast of the one primitive horse, 

 the Arabian, from which, as I have said, each one of these other nations 

 created their "national idols ;" for a good, pure-bred horse will be idol- 

 ized by man. 



I have concentrated my lifetime experience upon this object, that 

 others might be benefited; and not for a purpose of financial gain to 

 myself, as many have thought. 



That the laborer is worthy of his hire I do believe ; and so feeling, 

 trust that all my labor will not have been lost. 



I am CTettino- to be an old man from continued hard work, mental 

 and physical ; and when I say that for ten years I have not had one 

 single day of recreation, the reader can gather some idea of what my 

 applications have been. 



Some have felt hard towards me because my stallions were not for 

 public service. Such as were old, I desired should be vigorous for my 

 use. Mv Arabs I declined, because if to be condemned, I preferred it 

 should be through the virgin mares I had "Town for them, and which I 

 believed would be impossible. I have long felt that our manner of 

 breeding horses demanded a change ; that intelligent reasons should 

 be introduced anions such breeders, as crovern those interested in 

 cattle and sheep. We have been long breeding mongrels of no fixed 

 type of value, and ultimate results must prove financially disastrous to 

 the agricultural country, as well as to those who are making a specialty 

 of breeding horses of mixed bloods. 



The motto, " Fewer and better," should be hung up in the office and 

 stable of every breeder ; then the occupation would grow more scien- 

 tific in its tendency, with more pleasant and profitable results. No 

 man can afford to breed and raise coach- and road-horses at seventy- 



