BREEDING. 
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It sometimes happens that great irritation and inflamma¬ 
tion take place in nicking, and even locked-jaw has been 
brought on by it. When the first of these ensue, the 
weight must be removed from the tail, and the parts care¬ 
fully fomented with warm water, and gentle purgatives 
administered. When locked-jaw has taken place, the joints 
of the tail should be amputated at the first joint above the 
highest nick. 
CHAPTER XIII. 
OF BREEDING, FEEDING, AND TRAINING HORSES. 
SECTION I—BREEDING. 
The utmost attention should be paid in the selection of 
brood-mares, because the progeny depends more upon the 
dam than the horse, and the size and strength of the foal 
will bear a considerable similitude to hers. As a proof of 
this, we have found that those horses that have been the 
produce of an Arabian stallion and a mare, if she were 
large and well-formed, have not resembled the horse in their 
stature. Up to the year 1829, only one Arabian horse 
had been brought to Scotland, which was in the reign of 
Alexander I., who, in the year 1131, presented to the 
Church of St. Andrew’s an Arabian horse, furnished with 
costly trappings ; this is the first that was brought to Great 
Britain. In 1829, my late friend Capt. Horne, of the 
Madras Artillery, introduced a beautiful silver-grey horse, 
called the Humdanieh Arabian. His height was fourteen 
hands and a half—a size which the Edinburgh breeders 
