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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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ages. Indian ponies, Canadian ponies, and Shetlands have all beencalled into requisition, while in the West and South the smaller Mustangs ofTexas are used. Unless taken young, the Mustangs are wild, intractable,and often vicious. The Indian pony is fast becoming extinct, and Canadianponies are also growing scarce. These latter, many of them^ are really hand-some, small horses, of thirteen to fourteen hands high, hardy, docile and oftne most steadfast nerve, courage and bottom. They are self-willed, butperfectly tractable if not abused. Shetland ponies are stili smaller, androugher; but they are ambitious little fellows, and scamper along easily ata good pace, with a twelve year old boy or girl on their backs. The illus-cratioD show.s a grpnp gf these hardy little animals. It is claimed that 142 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR, no true Shetland can be more than eleven hands high, and some of thosein the extreme northern isles of Toll and Unst do not exceed seven and
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W-lMm a half hands. The average is from nine to ten hands. Although theeroallest of ponies, they are the most perfect in form, rounc? mi closed BREBDS OF HORSES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 143 ribbed-up, with lean bony heads, wide between the eyes, and otherwisowell shaped, very muscular, with coarse bushy manes and tails. They aregentle and easily trained ; and it is said that some of them are capable ofcanying a light man forty miles between sunrise and sunset. The Mustang.—The Mustangs are undersized and not handsome ; de-scended from horses gone wild after escaping from the early Spanish ad-venturers, they have degenerated owing to the scanty fare and hard usagereceived at the hands of their Indian masters. They are of various colors, asare all the semi-wild horses of Texas and Mexico. The Indian ponies foundin the West are undoubtedly of the same origin as the Canadian pony.They are pure, but modified, Norman, escaped from domestication andbred in a half wild state by the Indian

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