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VOL. XXXVII. No. 31 
WHOLE No. 1488. 
[Entered according- to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, liy the Rural Publishing Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
was the Dir ley Arabian, imported during the 
end of Queen Anne’s reign. This animal was 
the progenitor of some of the finest horses that 
ever ran; among which were Flying Childers 
and Eclipse, and the 334 winners begot by the 
latter. The horse usually known as the Godol- 
phin Arabian, imported one hundred and fifty 
years ago from Paris, where he trudged before 
a water cart, is now generally thought to have 
been a Barb. Of bis progeny 354 have been win¬ 
ners on different race-courses, and it is generally 
admitted that no imported Oriental sire, either 
Turk, Barb or Arabian, has been of any benefit to 
the English stock, or consequently to that of the 
United States, since his day. 
While the Arabian is more docile and good- 
tempered, the English thoroughbred is higher, 
longer, and larger in every way ; fully as endur¬ 
ing when not weakened by overtraining ( fleeter 
of foot, as shown in numerous trials ; and in all 
respects a finer and more serviceable animal 
than the small but shapely courser of the Arab¬ 
ian wilderness. 
and sinewy; the hoofs rounded and hard; the 
whole appearance mild yet proud. The color is 
generally white, light-gray or mottled; often 
chestnut, rarely black or bay. Its form corn- 
wide and flat; the face short, with a stright,flat¬ 
tened and broad nose ; the nostrils wide and open; 
the lips thin; the cheeks flat; the mouth small. 
The ears are small, straight and mobile, and 
THE ARABIAN HORSE 
For ages it has been the fashion to speak of 
the Arabian horse as the type of equine perfec¬ 
tion physically and morally, and down to to-day 
the fashion has a multitude of adherents, espe¬ 
cially among those who go to books rather than 
to nature for their facts. The Oriental descent 
of the Arab, hia remoteness, the difficulty of 
securing & specimen, the high esteem in which 
he is held in the land of his birth, together 
with his undoubted excellencies, all tend to in¬ 
vest him with poetio attributes, and poetry has 
to do with the imagination rather than with re¬ 
ality. Moreover, there is little doubt but that in 
many pointB the oouvBer of the desert greatly 
excelled even the best of the horses owned by 
Europeans a couple of centuries ago; but while 
with Oriental fixedness, the Arabian of to-day is 
the same as the Arabian of a century ago, the 
thoroughbred of our times is a vast improve¬ 
ment on the thorougbred that excited the admi¬ 
ration of last century. In effecting this im¬ 
provement, the oare and skill of breeders iu 
selecting and ooupling the stoutest, best and 
fleetest for generations, have certainly been 
more potent than the admixture of Oriental 
blood to whict* it is usually attributed by the 
writers above spoken of. Yet iu view of the fact 
that nearly all of the fleetest horses on the Eu¬ 
ropean and American turf, trace their descent 
more or less directly from some of these Eastern 
flyers, the Arabian horse will, for ages to come, 
excite a degree of interest disproportionate with 
bis merits. 
There are three breeds or varieties of the 
Arabian horse; the Atteohi, the Kaiischi, aud 
the Koohlaui or Koheylani. 
The last trace their geneal- 
ogy back two thousaud 
years ; are principally bred 
by the Bedouins in remote 
POULTRY BREEDING, 
Many persons keep their fowls in one or more 
flocks, feed all alike, and sat eggs from the lot 
in the basket. Now, with this course, your 
chickens will “ run out,” or at least get no bet¬ 
ter ; you will have to keep one or more oooks 
with each flock; and if you introduce new blood, 
you will have to get new cocks all round. Now, 
I propose to divide fowls into two classes—one 
cl iss to be designated as breeders, and the other 
as layers. In .this article I shall describe the 
management of the breed- 
vv ° rs - 
SsnVv The best time of the year 
to hatch out the stock in- 
-'•> tended for breeders is in 
the month of Jane, for this 
latitude; for the reason 
that, if hatched then, they 
will not be quite mature 
enough to begin to lay be- 
fore February; then, when 
W6 *° set ^out that 
IW| |g |jfe t|jP time, we shall have eggs to 
30t from fresh instead of 
from jaded stock, while our 
^ chickens will be more apt 
to hatch and will be stron- 
^yjjjgfc ger when hatched than 
those from fowls that begin 
W lay iu ^ ovemboraml b>e- 
in order to make the inst¬ 
il ter as plain as possible, let 
ifPW 3? us 8U PP° 8e that we buy a 
J .fp/il/lr aet ^ Q S of e 6g8 from Mr. 
Jones, one from Mr. Black, 
Ffa /; u ' • ll 3 another from Mr. Smith, 
•A./ H . : .if and still another from Mr. 
;> ■ /■ White. Then when the 
EfiSlH gs|8|jgg ohickens from these are 
iJUj! .yjjijljlgl grown, we pick a cockerel 
from the eggs bought of 
Mr. Smith, while a cookerel 
from S m i t h’s chicks is 
mated with the pullets from 
the eggs bought from Mr. 
Black, and so on. Now, 
then, we find among the 
pullets in a certain ooop 
an exceedingly good layer; 
we save all the eggs from 
_her apart from the rest and 
=E^__keep the chicks from them 
^ separate, and use cockerels 
from her for our stock o 
breeders. 
(CHAMPION HEREFORD 
placed rather widely apart; the eye prominent, 
bright, and energetic. The neck is long and 
arched; the joints large and strong; muscles of 
great power Btand out under a glossy, short- 
haired. Hilky coat, underneath whioh, in every 
directi >n, can be noticed the tracery of veins. 
The chest is broad aud deep; the legs shapely 
bines great strength and agility; its powers of 
endurance in traveling great distances over the 
arid sands, without food or water, are marvel¬ 
ous; and though small, it is a better weight 
carrier for its size than any other breed. 
Of the most famous of these horses intro¬ 
duced into England, the first to gain celebrity 
desert places, and are much 
more highly prized than 
either of the others. Males 
of this strain can be pur- 
of this strain can be pur 
cha-ed without much diffi¬ 
culty, at a high prioe, but a 
mare is rarely obtainable 
at any price, as the Arabs 
set a far higher value on 
the female Lhan on the 
male, trace the pedigree 
through her, and on her 
alone center their pride and 
affootion. When suckling, . 
tho filly is fed oamel’s milk 
along with that of itB dam ; 
when able to masticate, it 
is given in addition bruised 
and softened barley; and 
after it is weanod, it is fed 
partly on grass, though 
through life barley and 
dates constitute its princi¬ 
pal food. It is broken 
early, tho children first 
riding it, then the young¬ 
sters, and finally full-grown 
men. It lives with the 
family, shares their tent, 
plays with the children, 
and is always treated with 
tenderness and affection. 
This treatment it repays 
with mildness, docility and - 
great regard for its owners, k 
in whose behalf it is at all i 
times rejoiced to strain its % 
utmost powers. 
The Arabian horse, = 
though small — seldom 1 
much over 14 hands high— 
is an extremely handsome 
animal. The forehead is 
