 | 1868 - 766 էջ
...information on the state of agriculture at that period : Most of the horses are of Spanish origin. They are light and clean, but not very handsome. Their...draught. I have bought three since my arrival, for tw>> hundred and ten dollars. * * * 302 pretty good. Some of them »re handsome, and with a little... | |
 | Illinois - 1869 - 1130 էջ
...information on the state of agriculture at that period : Most of the horses are of Spanish origin. They are light and clean, but not very handsome. Their"...since my arrival, for two hundred and ten dollars. * * * Oxen and cows are now more plentiful, but hitherto they have been fetched from the States of... | |
 | Illinois - 1869 - 1084 էջ
...curious information on the state of agriculture at that period: Most of the horses are of Spanish origin. They are light and clean, but not very handsome. Their...since my arrival, for two hundred and ten dollars. * * * Oxen and cows are now more plentiful, but hitherto they have been fetched from the States of... | |
 | Illinois. Department of Agriculture - 1876 - 378 էջ
...Illinois, but in many parts of the Union." Woods, in 1820, says: "Most of the horses are of Spanish origin. They are light and clean, but not very handsome. Their coats are flue, •when kept up and well cleaned, but this is seldom the case ; active, but not good in the collar,... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 386 էջ
...give a short description of the domestic and wild animals. Most of the horses are of Spanish origin; they are light and clean, but not very handsome; their...dollars (forty-seven pounds five shillings): the first [178] was six years old, for which I gave seventy dollars; the second eight years, sixty dollars; and... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 376 էջ
...give a short description of the domestic and wild animals. Most of the horses are of Spanish origin; they are light and clean, but not very handsome; their...dollars (forty-seven pounds five shillings): the first [178] was six years old, for which I gave seventy dollars; the second eight years, sixty dollars; and... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 372 էջ
...give a short description of the domestic and wild animals. Most of the horses are of Spanish origin; they are light and clean, but not very handsome; their...dollars (forty-seven pounds five shillings): the first [178] was six years old, for which I gave seventy dollars; the second eight years, sixty dollars; and... | |
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I shall now proceed to give a short description of the domestic and wild animals. Most of the horses are of Spanish origin; they are light and clean, but not very handsome; their coats are fine, when kept up and well cleaned, but this is seldom the case;... 