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Title: Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Voogt, Gos. de Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, tr Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed
Subjects: Domestic animals
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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de ; they have made, so to speak,the horseman type, — curved legsand the upper part of the bodybending forward. They sleep ontheir horses, live with them, boastof them, and love them more thanwife or child. The wild horse still exists, how-ever ; he can be found in thesouthern regions of Siberia, on theplains of Mongolia, among the UralMountains, and in America, where heis a descendant of the horse stock broughtover by the Spanish explorers. As late as thesecond half of the twelfth century he washunted in Spain, in the Belgian Ardennes, inItaly, and in the south and east of what isnow Germany. Later still wild horses inhabitedthe forests of Russia, and in the seventeenthcentury were hunted in Poland and in Lithu-ania. Those that were captured alive werekept like cattle in inclosures, where theywere trained for either riding or draft, chieflyfor the former purpose. Mares milk, whichis still greatly esteemed for cheese or whey(koumiss) among the Tartars, was a chiefarticle of food. 96
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From a waler color by Otto Eerelman THE HORSE 97 Thus it was that the horse came from awild to a scmiwild state, till at last he reachedthe condition of a domesticated animal. It isto be remarked that the farther he came fromthe steppes of northern Asia the lon^^r timeit seems to have taken to domesticate andutilize him. In all directions the explorer findsthat the breeding and training of horses is anart which the peoples of Europe have learnedfrom their neighbors on the east and north-east. It is equally remarkable that in Russia,which serves as an intermediary between As for their distribution in cities and coun-try places, that depends on circumstances.The relation between production and demandnaturally exercises great influence in certaincountries. In the United States, which sup-plies its needs chiefly by its own production,the relative numbers show that about four fifthsof the total number of horses are employed inagriculture or for draft purposes, the remainingfifth being in p

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