Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts; February, 1859 So the horse of the Guacho of Buenos Ayres, ever on the ga110p, traverses the vast Pampas, getting green clover for one hundred and eighty miles and green grass for four hun dred and fifty miles more, and Heaven knows what for the remaining three hundred miles of bush. So the horses of California, (whe ther they do now or not, I cannot say, ) did their work on the green grass of the plains until the proper season turned it to hay, in which state it lay until the rains of winter spoiled it. A very intelligent returned Californian, who kept a livery stable at one time in some of their cities, told me that his horses underwent much of their service on this fare and on my asking him if our horses could stand it, said: Oh, yes, as soon as they get used to it. The best horse in my stable was a blooded mare from the States one that I took out over the plains from St. Louis. And how do any horses live on those plains except upon grass? What other food can our dragoons get? How can a Santa Fe trader obtain dry food? Who ever heard of that American Arab, or that modern Centaur, t he Camanche, rais ing food for his horse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.