80 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



reconciled to the presence of the stranger. 

 Now what was the result? Evenj ewe that ivas 

 pregnant at the time of this fright dropped off- 

 spring more or less marked with black, while some 

 of those that were served by this ram a few 

 weeks later, after they had become accustomed 

 to his presence, dropped lambs that were pure 

 white. The case attracted much attention in 

 the neighborhood at the time, and has often 

 been referred to since as a convincing illustra- 

 tion of the effects of color-marking from severe 

 fright. 



Other instances have come under my obser- 

 vation; none of them so convincing as the one 

 above narrated, but showing unmistakably the 

 effect of imagination or association. A grey 

 mare owned by a friend of mine was bred to a 

 grey Percheron horse for four years in succes- 

 sion, and produced four foals. During her first 

 impregnation she had for a stable companion 

 and working mate a bay mare, and the foal was 

 a bay. The next year her mate was a chestnut 

 and the foal was a chestnut. Afterwards she 

 was worked and kept with several different 

 animals, of various colors, and her foals were 

 all greys, like herself and the sire. 



These cases, with many others of a similar 

 character, that have come under my own 

 observation, as well as hundreds that have been 

 noted by others and reported to me, have, as 



