THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



  The Duke insisted that the stallion should,
ay, must be a Barb, for breeding race horses,
though the same was not urged in regard to
mares, though he placed no limitation on their
breeding, it being evident from what he did
say that he regarded their quality as impor-
tant as do the most skilful breelers of the
present day. Stonehenge says: I believe that
the use of the Spanish, mixed, perhaps, with
the rative English blood in the mare, was the
real cause of the success which attended the
cross with the Barb; the mare being of greater
size and stride than the horse, and giving
those qualities to the produce, while the horse
brought out the original strain of Eastern
blood, which possessed the wind and endu-
rance so peculiar to it. We may, therefore,
conclude that the origin of the thorough-bred
horse of the present day is to be laid in the
following strains:
  1. Native Mares used for racing, and bred
from Spanish and English strains; the former
descended most probably from the Barbs of
Morocco.
  2. Markham's Arabian, imported in the reign
of James I.. but proved to be good for nothing,
there being probably now not the slightest
strain of his blood extant.
  8. Place's White Turk, extensively used,
and to him most of our best horses can be
traced through Matchem.
  4. The Three Turks brought over from the
siege of Vienna, in 1684.
  6. The Royal Mares imported by Charles II.,
who sent his Master of the Horse to the Le-
vant, specially to procure them. These are
mentioned in all the best pedigrees.
  In the early pedigrees, various other horses
and mares are mentioned. In the time of
James II., the Byerley Turk was famous, but
of his importation nothing is known: and the
same is true of Moock's Arab, the Morocco
Barb, D'Arcy's Yellow Turk, the White
D'Arcy Turk, Leeds. Arab, the Brownlow
Arab, Harper's Arab, Pullen's Chestnut Arab,
Honeywood's White Arab, the old Bald Peg
Arab, and the Arab sire of Makeless. Most
of these names occur in the best pedigrees,
the D'Arcy Turks being particularly conspic-
uous.-Bostot Cultivator.

  -Tnu Cleveland (Ohio) Wool Grower and
Mganufacturer states that the clip of wool in
Ohio this season will be 20,000,000 lbs., bring-
ing 60 to 60 cents per pound.

  -An English paper of late date deprecates
the miaehievious practice of feeding wheat to
sheep, declaring that it has been known, in
several cases, to prove fatal.  How much
truth there may be in this statement we are
unable to say, but we fancy thaL 80 long as
wheat brings $1 per bushel the sheep of Wis-
__rn_ Lr Iu little A-



  THE HORTICULTURIST.

A. G. HANFORD ............. ORRESIPONDrNG XDITOR.

      Hints to Writers on Fruit Cultur



BAY PELEG.



  [The following singular and yet valuable
communication, all the way from the south
side of the Equator and written by a distin-
guished representative of the American Gov-
ernment, into whose hands a stray copy of
the WISCONSsN FARMER seems to have fallen,
should be read by all who need caution on
the important subject of which it treats. May
"Peleg " remember us again.-ED. FARMER.]

  MR. FARBHER:-I have been taking your ad-
vice for some time and find it so uniformly
correct and profitable that I begin to feel an
anxious solicitude that in your career you do
not fall into eome of the fatal faults of your
cotemporaries.  A prominent one that now
occurs to me, is that of admitting, without
the closest scrutiny, the communications of
correspondents who do not sufficiently under-
stand their subject.  For instance, "Fruit
Culture" is en almost ', unanimous" theme,
which is too apt to drive the pen with more
zeal than knowledge. This leads the inexpe-
rieuced to failure, and consequently to a loss of
taste for one of the noblest pursuits of hu-
manity. It likewise diminishes the influence
of " book knowledge " in these matters, which,
after all that can be said against it, is the
only sure road to even moderate success. A
wise, and certainly very ancient lady of my
neighborhood, gives me leave to say, in great
confidence, that her idea of a good Horticul-
tural Journal has long been, that it should be
about equal to an old fashioned blue-hone
Presbyterian Confession of Faith in certain-
ty (?), and as easily understood (?) and agree-
able (?) to follow as that famous and ever
popular code known as the moral law.
  Every one, therefore, who writes on these
subjects without knowing personally and
practically, from repeated experiments, where-
{o ha affirmn beyond a reasonable doubt, (I



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