AND HIS VARIOUS BRKKDS. 
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near ; a third to a class still more remote from parturition, and the 
remainder for such as are fit for work; for be it observed, those 
noble horses do the light work of the farm, which, with the regular 
exercise they have, keeps them in health. Each animal, whether 
mare cr stallion, has its loose box, and not a stall. lake the lodgings 
of their seniors, the barracks of the youthful heroes are marked ofl' 
to suit their respective occupant, whether the colts of three years 
old, or the colts of two. The yearling colts and those somewhat 
younger have each their separate lodgings. 
There is this difference in the stables which are allotted to the 
old and young,—that whereas sires and dams have each distinct 
boxes, the colts of each age are all turned loose together. Mr. 
Gleig remarks, that there can scarcely be imagined a more beautiful 
sight than a group of two hundred yearlings, tame and gentle as 
spaniels, into the midst of which he followed the Major-commandant. 
Major Herbert is an old campaigner, who has seen much service, 
has fought among the Cossacks, and lived with the Arabs of the 
desert, from whom he selected, with great perseverance and diffi¬ 
culty, the choicest of his Arabian stock. He is as admirably cut 
out for the office the emperor has conferred upon him as if his 
single occupation through life had been to superintend a breeding 
stud or look after a farm. The hospitals for man and beast, the 
workshops, laboratories, furnaces, and smithies, and all other ap¬ 
pliances connected with this establishment, are in the highest pos¬ 
sible order. 
The yearly expense of Babolna to the government is estimated 
at 400,000 florins, or £40,000. This is not disbursed florin by 
florin from the imperial treasury, for every year forty or fifty stal¬ 
lions are sold, as well as all mares not required for breeding, and 
all of either sex that are blemished. The work of the farm being 
performed within its limits materially lessens its expense. 
In the continuation of my subject in a future paper I shall have 
occasion to speak of the experiment of breeding Avholly from the 
Arabian stock, combined with the different system of feeding 
which is now practised by Major Herbert, of Babolna. 
Hungary has ever been renowned for a race of horses, small, 
swift, and enduring. The passion for horse-breeding and training 
has always been a characteristic of its people. Tradition relates 
that, at the close of the ninth century, Swatopluk, the last of the 
Schlavack kings, sold the country to Arpad, the chief of the 
Magyars, and a white steed and his tra])pings were part of the 
payment. 
“ For snow-white steed thou gav’st the land, 
For golden bit the grass, 
For the rich saddle Duna’s stream.” 
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