453              THE WISCONSIN FARMER.




failure of all my usual remedies, I thought of  Origin of English ThIroogh-gred
oerim


one I had heard of when a boy, and resolved  It is recorded that Spanish
and Flemish


to try it, which I did with perfect success,  horses were imported into England
to serve

                                           as chargers; but there is no authentic
history
  I went and caught about ten common frogs of the inportation of an Arabian
horse until


and made her swallow them alive, by holding the reign of James I., when a
London mer-


               outer ewith one hand and p ga chant, Mr. Markham, sent to
Constantinople
oat her tongue v Ith one banu an  putting afor an Eastern horse, and sold
him to the

frog as far down the throat as convenient King for £500, or about $3,500.
His stock

with the other, and then letting go with both proved too slow for racing.
No further effort

                                           was made during the reign of James
I. or
hands at once. He will go down without any Charles I. by way of introducing
the Ara-


difficulty.  I afterwards recommended my bian.


remedy to a neighbor who had a cow very     The stud groom of Oliver Cromwell
obtain-


sick with the same diseases. He went home ed an Eastern horse, appearing
in the Stud-


and gave her a dozen frogs, and the next 'ook as ,Place's White Turk;"
but nothing

                                           further is recorded of him. Fairfax's
Mo-
morning he said she was "all right."       rocco Barb, and Helmsly
Turk, property of


  If you think it worth while to publish this, of the Duke of Buckingham,
were crossed


                                          ywith four Barb mares, imported
from Tangiers
you are at liberty to (lo so a.by Charles II, and known in the Stud-book

      Truly your>,                         as the "Royal 'Mares.'
Down to 1700 little


                        LuTHa RAWSON.      m more was done except the procuring
of three

                                           Hamburg mares, taken at the siege
of Vienna,
 OAK CRxIx, c(a 18, I "                    and brought over in 1684.
These, it is said


 PraxARKs.-Frog &roiA has been administer- by Stonehenge, are regarded
as the founda-

                                           tion of English thorough-breds.
 Prior to
ed to not-over-sjueoiieh m~embers of the hu.this, however, England was in
possession of

man family from time immemorial, but not race'horses of fair speed, for the
Arabs were


for diseases as malignant as the dry murrain. beaten on the Newmarket race
course 200

                                           years ago at English races. It
is not claimed
Without ever having seen the remedy of twelte that the imported horses werebred
excusively


frogs administere1, we could almost predict with the Spanish horses; for
most of the ear-


that no sensible cow would venture to go on ly pedigrees are imperfect. In
the pedigree

                                           of Eclipse, there are two blanks,
which may
the sick-list very soot, again, after being have been filled with mares of
Eastern blood;

forced to bolt a dozen living, kicking, scrab- but it is impossible now to
remove this blot

bling frogs.ww>,,,                        from the escutcheon of that
noble horse, as
bling frogs Deriatum I                    English writers admit   Stonehenge
gives it


  Query.-Was the remedy probably suggest- as his opinion that the race horse
of that day

                                           ewas imported from Spain, and
bred from a
et by the ancient story of Jonah swallowing cross of the Andalusian mare
with the Barb,

the whale?  If so, there ought to be an ever- introduced by the Moors.  le
adds: "a fresh


lasting feud between all the cows and the de- infusion of Eastern blood,
therefore, was

                                           likely to 'hit,' as we know it
did; and by
scendants of Jonah.-EDITOR.               care, and taking advantage of our
climate


                                           and natural advantages, the fine
breed we

  Kzlpxs'< Hox1aS FXZ'r AND Isos iN ORDXR. now possess was produced."

-If I were asked te account for my horses'  The Duke of Newcastle, after
describing

legs and feet being in better order than those mares suitable to breed race-horses
from, says:

of my neighbor, I should attribute it to the " Your stallion must be
a Barb, for a Barb that

four following circumstances: First, they are is a jade will get a better
running horse than

all shod with few nails, so placed in the shoe the best running horse in
England, as Sir

as to permit the foot to expand every time John Fenwick told me, who had
more experi-

they move; second, that they all live in box- ence in running horses than
any other man

es instead of stalls, and can move whenever in England. For he had more running
horsee,

they please'; third, they spend two hours, dai- rare running horses than
any other English-

ly, walking exercise when they are not at man; and most of the famous running
horses

work; and fourth, that I have not a headstall in England were of his race
and breed. Some

or track chain in my stall. These four cir- commend the Turk as a stallion
to breed

cumstances comprehend the whole mystery of mares from, but they are so rare
that I can

keeping horses legs fine, and their feet in give no judgment of them, and,
therefore, I

sound working condition up to old age.- advise you to the Barb, which I believe
is

M6i1u,                                     much the better to breed running
horses."



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