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RURAb NEW-YORKER 
November 23, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THE ARAB HORSE. 
In a recent issue there appeared a 
picture of a spotted colt which was said 
to have reverted to its Arabian ancestry. 
This recalls the fact that there are two 
breeds of horses that are called Ara¬ 
bian, the one coming from Arabia, the 
other not. The colt whose portrait was 
published is somewhat akin to a well- 
known breed having thin manes and 
tails and spots on the back, especially 
on the rump. In these horses, where 
the hair is white, the skin is also white, 
and the muzzle and the skin about the 
eyes and other exposed parts of the 
body is often white. Few of these 
horses are handsome, excepting those 
that are almost entirely white, and most 
breeders dislike them. Consequently 
farmers generally discount any strain 
of breeding stock that has Arabian 
blood in it, and this is a serious error. 
Mr. Homer Davenport, of New Jer¬ 
sey, now dead, who traveled extensively 
in Arabia in quest of the best horses, 
and knew the country and its horses 
thoroughly, - said there are no spotted 
horses in Arabia at all. About 55 per 
cent of the Arab horses are solid bays. 
There are some sorrels, chestnuts and 
grays, and a few browns which are 
highly prized. There are also a few 
white horses in Arabia, and they inva¬ 
riably have black skins. Whatever the 
color, there are no spots, and the mane 
and tail are always full and flowing. In 
referring to the spotted so-called Ara¬ 
bian horses, Mr. Davenport says a great 
many of them are found in Germany, 
and they are probably of European ori¬ 
gin. In some parts of the country they 
are called “Snow Storm” horses, and 
in the West they are sometimes called 
“Appelucies.” From present data it 
seems evident that they never came 
from Arabia. 
Mr. Spencer Borden, in his book en¬ 
titled “The Arab Horse,” states that 
the noble steeds which he describes are 
never spotted and always bear heavy 
and long manes and tails, and carry 
their heads and tails unusually high in 
air, and that they are wider across the 
forehead and more intelligent than any 
other breed of horses. The four-in- 
hand with which Ben Hur won the 
chariot race were solid bay Arabs. Gen¬ 
eral Lew Wallace, who knew the gen¬ 
uine Arab charger, described the team 
as follows: “They were all bright bays, 
unspotted, perfectly matched, and so 
proportioned as to seem less than they 
really were. Delicate ears, pointed small 
heads; the faces were broad and full 
between the eyesthe nostrils in expan¬ 
sion disclosed membrane so deeply red 
as to suggest the flashing of flame; the 
necks were arches, overlaid with fine 
mane so abundant as to drape the 
shoulders and breast, while in happy 
consonance forelocks were like ravel- 
ings of silken veils; between the knees 
and the fetlocks the legs were flat as 
an open hand, but above the knees they 
were rounded with mighty muscles, 
needful to upbear the shapely close-knit 
bodies; the hoofs were like cups of pol¬ 
ished agate; and in rearing and plung¬ 
ing they whipped the air, and sometimes 
the earth, with tails of glossy black and 
thick and long.” 
Prof. Osborn, of the American Mu¬ 
seum of Natural History, New York 
City, is of the opinion that the Arab 
horse is of North African lineage and 
not of the wild Asiatic stock as often 
supposed. The Arab differs from all 
Asiatic and European native horses in 
having one less vertebra in the back¬ 
bone and one less in the tail. The bones 
of his forelegs are complete, while in 
other horses the ulna often ends in a 
splint. The Arab has a larger brain, a 
shorter skull, a more slender lower jaw, 
a more horizontal pelvis than the native 
horses of any other land. 
The nomads of the Arabian desert 
have bred these horses from prehistoric 
times and they show pedigrees written 
upon ivory tablets brown with age, and 
always kept in the line of the mares, 
that date back to time immemorial. 
Many of our best horses to-day have 
Arab blood in their veins. The English 
Thoroughbred is part Arab; also the 
Hackney and the French Coach. The 
Percheron has some Arab blood in him, 
but has lost the style and fleetness of 
the Oriental steeds. A trace of Arab 
blood is also carried by the famous 
Morgan and by the American trotter. 
Perhaps the nearest approach to the 
Arab type among American breeds of 
horses to-day is the Kentucky saddle 
horse, which in carriage and gait often 
approximates closely to the spirited 
foals of the desert. It is to be noted 
that none of the known descendants of 
the genuine Arab are spotted in color 
or particularly lacking in mane and tail 
adornments. j. M. keck. 
Ohio. 
Choking Animals ; Cattle Poke. 
When cattle or horses choke take a 
three-quarter-inch rubber hose about 
five feet long, and with this you can 
force the obstacle down in the stomach 
without hurting the beast. 
I give a cut of a stanchion poke to put 
on unruly cattle. Similar in style to 
the stable stanchion. Take a 10-inch 
piece of three-quarter scantling; bore 
CATTLE POKE. 
two holes six inches apart and one in 
front to put a pin one foot long. The 
upright standards are 2> l / 2 feet long, 
size about 1J4 hyV /2 inch, or round 
poles to extend above upper crosspiece 
about a foot. The standards are driven 
in the block below, the upper piece is 
bolted on and spread according to thick¬ 
ness of neck. p. a. a. 
Breeding Wild Rabbits. 
I have a half-acre lot that I have fenced 
for rabbits, and some advise me against 
it, as they contend they cannot stand the 
confinement. I meant to use the common 
wild rabbit or hare and start with five 
male and 20 female, and kill off all next 
Pall, and catch a new lot the next season. 
I am told these wild rabbits have about 
three litters each season and the two first 
litters breed once the first season. 
Winston-Salem, N. C. it. f. r. 
R. N.-Y.—We never heard of such a 
scheme being worked out. Judging from 
the following report from the Biological 
Survey we should doubt the wisdom 
of starting it: 
Your letter asking about breeding wild 
rabbits for profit has been referred to me 
for attention. So far as the writer knows, 
no experiments of this kind have been made 
and I am hardly prepared to express a 
judgment as to its feasibility. The inquirer 
in North Carolina will have difficulty in 
deciding which of his specimens are males 
and which females, as it is hard to deter¬ 
mine the sex of rabbits except in the breed¬ 
ing season. I should be inclined to think 
that the profits from such an industry 
Would not be equal to the outlay required. 
d. e. i.antz. Assistant Biologist. 
Goats and Dogs. 
T 3 vish to reply to a statement or two 
made on page 1085, headed “An Argument 
for Angora Goats/’ The writer signing 
himself W. J. asserts “A goat will whip 
out a dog and very frequently kill a dog.” 
My object in writing is to prevent if I 
can any reader of The R. N.-Y from 
meeting with a loss from believing such 
stuff. I have had goats here in the Coast 
Range of Oregon for 3 0 or 12 years. There 
are some wild flesh-eating animals here, 
but the most destructive to goats is the 
dog. I have lost many goats killed by 
dogs, by many different dogs. One year all 
my kids as well as some old goats ended 
their lives that way. I once saw a young 
buck put up a -little fight after he had 
been run home or cornered by two hounds, 
but then my shotgun failed to work. How¬ 
ever, later in the day, one of them came 
in contact with a bullet. I have met dogs 
as hard to shoot at as any wolf. However, 
they take poison more readily. I wish to 
say to sheep men and goat men also, in¬ 
stead of getting a goat to protect your 
flocks, provide a good gun. I keep two 
standing by the door, a repeating shotgun 
and a long range rifle, and a supply of 
poison, and kill every dog that hangs 
around. Keep your mouth shut and let 
the dog owners do the howling. s. 
The Flat Pea. 
A few weeks ago I read an article about 
Lath yrus sylvestris Nogueri, or flat pea, 
in which I was very much interested. 
How many pounds of seed will it take to 
plant an acre and when is the proper time 
of the year to sow the seed, in the Spring 
or Fall of the year, and how early in the 
season should it be sown? I am living in 
the extreme eastern central part of North¬ 
ampton Co., Pennsylvania. How soon after 
it is sown, or in other words, when would 
it be in a fit condition to be cut to use 
to feed milch cows? e. f. k. 
Comparatively little experimental work 
has been done in this country on the flat 
pea. Some years ago the North Carolina 
Experiment Station published the following 
statement in its annual report for 1890: 
“The fiat pea we place next to saccaline 
as the most loudly trumpeted swindle per¬ 
petrated upon a long suffering public in 
recent years. YVe have had this plant un¬ 
der observation for four years, during 
which a row one-half rod long has never 
produced enough food for a rabbit. It 
grows flat on the ground to a length of 
12 to 15 inches. As the branch elongates 
and puts forth new leaves, those behind 
decay.” A statement not unlike the above 
may be found also in the annual report of 
the Florida Experiment Station for the 
year 3 890, p. 3 2. It seems to me that E. 
F. K. should not waste his time trying to 
grow this crop. Jacob g. lTpman. 
N. J. Experiment Station. 
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