Observations on the breeding of horses, within the Provinces under the Bengal establishment, submitted to the consideration of the President and members of the Board of Superintendence [of the East India Company, 1814].

  • Moorcroft, William.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Observations on the breeding of horses, within the Provinces under the Bengal establishment, submitted to the consideration of the President and members of the Board of Superintendence [of the East India Company, 1814]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( s ) The former Superintendent, tremblingly alive to every I danger that menaced the existence of the Stud, beheld 1ц the slightest expense the crush of abolition. This morbid sensibility brought ruin on the public buildings, entailed large expense on the State, and involved his successor in perplexity. Yet the motives were pure, the intentions excellent. My own experience in the History of Studs fully ap¬ prised me of the nature of mischiefs unknown to the higher authorities, and of which the effects still prese weightily on the establishment. Had pride, had duties of obligation and of gratitude to¬ wards my employers not interposed, I had shrunk fix)m hazarding reputation in a task, more than Augean. It long remained a moot point, whether it were better to sweep all away, and be^n anew with fresh materials, or to select and rejects Considerations of expense, and ignorance of the Horse resources of the Country forbade the first plan, and determined the propriety of keeping the best of the stock, till means of procuring still better could be ascer¬ tained. The Stud consisted of three branches, viz.. Home, Nisfee and Zumeendaree. The first, in buildings on the Stud lands contained ! Stallions, Mares and their produce, till the latter was of aa i age fit for the army, the market, or for breeding. The second, signifying partnership, consisted of Mares, the property of the Stud, covered by its Stallion^ and borded with farmers living in its neighborhood. • The produce, when of a certain age, was valued ; half the estimated worth was allowed to the farmer, half was retained for the use of the Maree. The produce was kept at the Stud, till of a proper age for disppsaL The third, Zumeendaree or native branch, consisted in Stallions being placed in the Covmtry at a distance from the Stud, to serve the Mares of the üurmers. EuIaIIoiI inCTMae of ex< pciue. Complete renewal, or fuanicd reform moet ex¬ pedient t The latter adopted. The 8t<td consisted of throe branche*. First, or Hom«^ do> fined ; its produce. Secoini, or Kisfeik de&ned. lu prodvice valued, and divided botweon the Stud and the breeder. ТЫп1, or Znmeendare* or Dative, defiued.