And here one might observe that there is no difference between a horse, and @ so-called China pony. other than what has been brought about by environments and climatic conditions. Naturally a 14-hand animal resembles a horse more than a 13.0 pony, though both may be full brothers.
The struggle for existence in these parts is very severe, when for several weeks of the year, rivers are frozen solid, and the only food, the grass they walk on, is under one to three or four feet of snow.
that is it estimated by the Mongols that 200 out of every thousand die every winter. Hence if an animal is born in the winter, and survives the ordeals, he may only develop into'a 13-hand pony, while the following year, his younger brother, born in early summer may get better chances in his youth, and become a 14-hand pony, Even the bigger sized animals of the Russians and Buriats that have in recent years arrived in Mongolia from their former districts where hay, and.some winter protection was available, will tend to produce smaller-sized offspring, in their new breeding grounds, where the severity of climate and conditions require perhaps six years of exist-
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