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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



Dual meeting such alterations aud additions 

 an they may deem necessary. 



On balloting for such committee there 

 wore elected Messrs. Coles, Pope and 

 Dodgt'. 



Resolved, That there be placed in the 

 hands of the President and Secretary, the 

 sum of thirty dollars, for the purpose of pro- 

 curing such periodical and other publica- 

 tions, connected with the objects of this so- 

 cioty, as they may see tit — and twenty dol- 

 lars for the purpose of procuring seeds or 

 plants, to be distributed when received, in 

 such manner as they may think most cou- 

 dr.cire to the interest of the society — the 

 members of the society always to have a 

 preference in such distribution. 



Resolved, That the President be,, aud he 

 IP hereby authorized lo draw upon t^e 

 Treasurer for the sums specified in the above 

 resoluti( n. 



The following j^e/itlemen wer*- proposed 

 »<> the coiiBitit'r;.r.ioii of the etc .f,\- as iionor- 

 ary members: 



By Ml' •toleri — Tliomas Jetferson, J-jmc^ 

 Mddiisou, John Taylor, William Pilgiiumu, 

 R chard Peters, S.iinuel L. Mitchell and 

 Blkanah Watson. 



By Mr. Lambert— Jacob Bigelow. 



By the President — General La Fayette, 

 Ciiarl<^8 De Last^-rve and Sir John Seb- 

 right. 



Bj Mr. Pjpe--Iaaac Shelby aud ..Wil- 

 liam Henry Harrison, 



On motion of Doctor Lambert, 



Resolved, That the rules and regnlfitions, 

 with the proceedi'jgo of the pociety, by 

 printed in the Illiuois Intelligencer. 



Resolved, That the society adjourn to 

 meet at this place on the first Monday ra 

 May uext. HE.NRY B. DODGE, .>ec. 



Arabian Horses. 

 Id Mr. William C Prime's interesting 

 workfr, recently published by the Mt-ssrs. 

 Harpers, "Boat Life in Egypt," and •"Tent 

 Life in the Holy Land," frequent nieution 

 is made of the Arab horses, renowned ail 

 over the world for their beauty, docility, 

 fleeiness, power, .endurance, and value to 

 tbeir masiers, who live and roam upon the 

 great deserts of the East. Mr. Prime says 

 the Arabs prefer the mare to the horse, on 

 account of her superior power of endurance. 

 They trace their genealogy by their mother 

 and not, as we do, by the sire. The favor- 

 ite tradition is that tbey are descended from 



the five mares of the Prophet Mohammed, 

 and that these came originally from one 

 common stock, to wit the Kohailah. The 

 finest breeds of horse are to be found among 

 the Anazee and Shumar tribes, east and 

 southeast of the Damascus, extending quite 

 to the Euphrates. 



The value of an Arab mare is, literally, 

 not to be estimated in gold, since no amount 

 of money will effect the purchase ,of one of 

 the pure blood. The fact arises from causes 

 thiit are evident to one who knows the 

 Bedouins. lu the first place, money is of 

 no use to an Arab. He needs very little 

 fir his ordinary purposes, and more would 

 be an incumbrance — to be buried, given 

 away, or loot. His mare is his life; with 

 her iie is free to travel on the desert, to 

 fight or fly, to rob his legitimate enemies, or 

 I rot.jct iiih friends. If he should exchange 

 isis naare for gold, he would be a fair sub- 

 ject for plunder, without the means of de- 

 fsiise, or escape, and having no home, would 

 be at a loss to bury liis treasure whore it 

 ! would be of practical use to him. 



The color of the Arab horse varies, but 

 i-^ most frequently white, or light chestnut. 

 Tbiy are not large, rarely above fourteen 

 hands high, and while at rest, none but an 

 ( .■cperieuccd lior.^eman would observe their 

 points. Bat when in full motion they are 

 gloiious animals "A high bred mare 

 should bide her rider between her head and 

 tail," saith the Koran, for the Koran is not 

 silent on the sui>ject of hoises, and many of 

 the.-e animals nearly perform ibis duty. 



Mr. Prime says, it is only by acddeut 

 thai an Arub horse of pure blood, is ob- 

 tained, so that out of hundreds of horses 

 imported into England and America as 

 Arabian, it is not probable that until with- 

 in the last year, one horse of pure blood 

 was ever brought into either country. He 

 mentions that he met a gentleman in var- 

 ious parts of Syria, who' was from 'New- i 

 Orleans, whose object in visiting the East, 

 was to obtain these animals. [This g^intle- 

 man was probably A. K. Richards, Esq., of 

 Scott county, Kentucky, who has imported 

 several Arabian horses.] He had, by a 



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