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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



niDstly find light horses for saddle and harness, 

 and in the southern part of the country the 

 heavier draft horses. 



Hanover devotes itself especially to the pro- 

 duction of solid, weighty animals of noble 



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form for the saddle and harness ; they ha\'e 

 great endiu'ance and a fiery temperament. 

 From the days of George I of England, the 

 first of the Hanoverian kings, eight of these 

 horses have drawn the royal coach on all state 

 occasions, their last appearance being 

 at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 

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Oldenburg and Friesland stand 

 quite apart from the rest of Germany 

 in their production of horses. The 

 Oldenburgs are especially known as 

 fine, large, heax-y carriage horses ; 

 the head is well formed, the neck 

 and shoulders handsome, the withers 

 high, and the legs strong!)' muscled 

 but often thick and coarse about 

 the knees. They are not as noble in 

 their conformation as the 1 lanove- 

 i"ians, but they excel them in their 

 docility and fine action. 



In the Rhenisli pro\-inces and 

 throughout all southern Germany the heavy cart 

 or work horse takes the first rank. He is usual!)' 

 of Belgian origin, thougli in sonie places we 

 find the hea\')' Englisli aiiimal. 



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The race of the Pinzgau, originally the wild 

 horse of the Noric Alps of Austria, is still 

 found in southern Bavaria, and is much em- 

 ployed in Munich to draw the trucks of the 

 breweries. It takes its name from the valley 

 of Pinzgau near Salzburg. This race 

 is considered as descending, without 

 admixture of any kind, from the 

 ancient wild horse of the Alps, which, 

 in the days of the Romans, lived in 

 a savage state among the mountains. 

 In the neighborhood of Munich there 

 is also a light-weight, primitive horse, 

 called the Feldmoching (from the 

 village of that name), the skeleton 

 of which corresponds precisely to 

 that of the fossil horses found in the 

 lake of Sternberg. 



Austria-Hungary comes next after 

 Germany in the number of its horses, 

 although it has no race types. In 

 the German-speaking Austrian prov- 

 inces the animals are heavier than those found 

 among the peoples of Slavic and Romanic 

 origin. In the eastern districts, Gahcia and 

 Transylvania, the influence of Oriental blood 

 is plainly felt. In these provinces we find 



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niany ponies, angular in shape and thin, but 

 fiery and showing qualities of endurance all 

 the more remarkable because their lives are 

 cruelly hard. On the plains of Hungar)', with 



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