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ing among the tribes. Those stallions, however, never make more 

 than one or two leaps a year I while others make from thirty tO' 

 forty ! 



In 1851, there were but 2,000 leaps made in all our breeding, 

 (Hippiques) establishments. In 1855, there were, in round num- 

 bers, 15,500, which number is daily increasing. Under the meas- 

 ures taken, if the stallions are suitably stationed, as to localitieSy 

 &c., we shall, in a little time, arrive at immense results. 



And it is indispensable that our breeders should unite in good 

 action ; and I shall not cease to repeat the necessity of constantly 

 getting as near as possible to the following rules formed by the- 

 Science of Eelon, Buffon, Linnseus, Pallas, Daubenton, Cuvier, Geof- 

 froy Saint Hilaire and others, viz : 



1st. Good quality of the material composing the organism, that 

 is to say — the muscle, bone, tendons, ligaments, the aponevrose, 

 (fascia), &c. 



2d. The nervous fluid in harmony with the force and resistance 

 of these organs. 



3d. The conformation indicated by the laws of mechanics ap- 

 plied to the physiology of the horse. 



The absence of those transmissible blemishes which constitute ai 

 predisposition in the colts to be so attacked, and which always 

 more or less act as restraints upon the play of the articulation of 

 the horse. 



Every horse proposed as a stallion which has not by his antece- 

 dents been perfectly and undeniably proved to have the energy, 

 the resistance to fatigue, swiftness long continued under a suitable 

 weight, are among the proofs wanted. 



Even a proper conformation of the horse will not do without 

 the above proofs. 



We know that, without these, the horse is not to be used as a 

 breeder, however admirable his exterior form, &c. 



The proofs of the energy of every stallion stationed for breeding 

 must be published every year among the tribes where they stand. 



The result of which will be, that the natives will all bring their 

 best mares to him, for the Arab will never put his beautiful mare 

 to a stallion whose vigor has not been perfectly demonstrated. 



