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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    cnf^emcut.4 to rvtum |inKliioc ■•n equl- tublo terms. •• To keep the Jlarcs well, and not to alienate thorn under a ]>analty. f Circles of 25 M.ares’ 4e, Establishments, As- sistants, dee. ♦ Indifferent produce not to be purchased. Desirable to be sent to Dci>dts. Colts of proper age to be drafted to the Army, ttc. KUics to be returned to the Districts. Precautions to prevent abuse or alienation of Hares. 2nd. That the whole of their produce be tendered, when twelve months old, to the Superintendent, or his As.sistant, to select such as may be desirable, and to rate them in the class to which he may think they belong, in a scale of prices corresponding with their respective me- rits, and previously made known in its several amounts to the breeders; the highest price being 140 Rupees. 3rd. That the farmers engage to keep the Mares well; to give them to the Horse prescribed ; to bring them to an inspection muster once a month ; never to sell, pledge, lend, or in any other way engage or alienate them, under a fine of double the cost of the Mares, leviable summari- ly under bond and judgment. The Mares to be placed in circles of twenty-five, to each of which, one Stallion, one Horse Keeper or Nal- bund to be attached. One native Register Keeper to four circles. One European Assistant (Subaltern Officer ?) with one Jamedar and two Hurkarus to sixteen circles. The produce, which may appear not desirable, to be left with the breeder. That selected, to be kept at convenient Depots, till the Colts be of an age fit for drafting to the army, or else- where. ■ The Fillies at two years and a half old to be returned to the Districts in new circles, on the same terms with their Dams.* Although the Mares be given as an accommoda- tion to the farmers, yet the State must retain the power of preventing abuse in treatment, or by alienation. * The price of 140 Rupees, it is hoped, will operate as a premium of encouragement. And I would submit also, that silver Ornaments for women, to the value of at least twenty-five Rupees, be given annually, as a prize to the farmer, who may rear the best Colt or Filly in a circle ; and that this be formally announced. In villages, the care of brood Mares and Colts principally devolves upon the women and children. I very much regret that during the continuance of the Nisfee system, this idea did not occur to me. It might have been an agent of no small importance.