Show DIFFERENT TYPES OF HORSE HORSEMen Men of Science Have Recently Taken Up Study of Origin and to Differ Differ- Differentiate Characteristics Horse breeding has been followed as a trade ever since animals were first domesticated but the study of ot types has only quite recently been taken up by men of science with a aview aview aview view of ascertaining the origin of the species and to differentiate their characteristics As a result of ot this study based based- upon these anatomical differences and variations which ha have vo resulted from wide geographical distribution distribution distribution dis dis- and which probably originated originated origin origin- originated In early geographical times Umes It may be accepted that there are four families or species of at horses The first type In this classification Is the Celtic horse found on the west coast of Norway known as the Fjord jor z I The y Horse Specimens of Which Are Now Being Bred In the tho New York Zoological Gardens horse In Iceland Faeroe Barra and other sma small Islands of the outer Hebrides In northern Scotland on the Shetland Isles and In or northern Ireland There has also been found a n close kinship between the Celtic horse and the true Tarpon horse of Russia The second type of horses Is the found In a wild state on tho tha steppes of central Asia There are a few of these in id England on the estate of the duke duite of Bedford and several severa specimens are being bred In Inthe Inthe inthe the New York zoological gardens The horse Is of a red brown color with a light mealy nose has a large head in proportion to his body and andIs Is is cat hamed named and less powerful than the Celtic horse Some writers have assumed that the and the horses belong to the same family but this Is not now accepted on account of at their marked differences the most conspicuous of which Is that the has the callosities on his hind legs In this family it usually takes the form of a narrow strip and not shaped drop-shaped as is common with other horses There has been a suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- that this little horse only 12 hands high is the living example example ex ex- ex- ex ample ampe of the original ancestor of the draft horses of Europe Europ but It seems highly Improbable Inasmuch as fossils of the draft type have ha been found showing its great antiquity and I am R e J I I I r r- Celtic Pony Developed In Norway folo for for- Show Purposes He Shows the Characteristic Black Mark Down HI His Mane more inclined to bell believe eve that these big types are a species by themselves and anti shall call caU this family the third type This horse is known mown to science as the Forest horse because he originally obtained obtained obtained ob ob- his food by browsing on shrubs and low trees The Arab or African horse forms the fourth type In our classification Ills His food toad Is the grasses that grow on the ground and nd his home has always been the open plains and hillsides remote remote remote re re- re- re mote from forests Therefore his head Is articulated on his cervical vertebra at an nn obtuse angle thus forming t line Une of beauty This set of the head has long been recognized by breeders as a constituent element of ot beauty H. H H. H K Iv K Bush Brown in American Breeders Breeder's Magazine |