£BiiUe4m  Konsv^l  De  La  Societe  Imperial  Zoologiqae  D'AcclixDatatlon,  Farip,

July,  1866.]

Extracts  translattd  by  H,  Meigs.       ^

ON  THE  PRODUCTION  AND  THE  MEANS  OF  PERPEOTIN*

THE  HORSE  OF  ALGERIA.
A  letter  addressed  to  Mons.  the  President  of  thip  Soeiety,  by
U.  Bernis,  principal  veterinarian  of  the  army  of  Africa.
The  devotion  of  your  society  to  the  high  interests  of  agrioultwe
od  domestic  animals,  authorise  me  to  address  you  on  the  prae-
tical  subject  of  the  horse  in  Algeria.  The  means  pi^^posed  are  to
put  at  the  dispofli^l  of  the  Arabian  and  European  breeders,  (who
often  £dl  for  want  of  a  good  type,)  the  stallions  to  which  the  mune
of  staUicns  jof  the  tribe  is  given.
Before  this  wise  measure,  due  to  Marshal  Count  Randon,  ^as

adc^ted,  a  great  number  of  breeding  mares  were  unused  for  want

^  suitable  stallions;  and  what  is  worse,  a  great  many  were  pat  to

horses  of  yetj  little  value.  ,  The  true  stallions  were  never  DWit-

[Am.  Inst.]  19


S78  T&ANSACriONS   OF  THE

ing  among  the  tribes.  Those  stallions,  however,  never  make  more
than  one  or  ttoo  leaps  a  year !  while  others  make  from  thirty  to
forty !

In  1851,  there  were  but  2,000  leaps  made  in  all  our  breeding
(Hippiques)  establishments.  In  1855,  there  were,  in  round  num-
bers, 15,500,  which  number  is  daily  increasing.  Under  the  meas-
ures taken,  if  the  stallions  are  suitably  stationed,  as  to  localities,
fco.,  we  shall,  in  a  little  time,  arrive  at  immense  results.
