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collar, broad in the chest, allowing not only ample room for lung 

 and heart capacity but also that power necessary to sustain a 

 heavy draft ; long in the fore-arm and short from knee to ankle 

 and strong in the pastern, with good quality of hoof and a well 

 rounded, symmetrical foot; short in the back and round in the 

 barrel, square and full in the quarters. This is the type of horse 

 best fitted for heavy work. With all this structure there must 

 also go courage and elasticity of movement to insure the highest 

 service. Here is one extreme in breeding and it offers an oppor- 

 tunity, sadly neglected by our farmers, by which not only our 

 farms may be stocked with horses of great virtue and value 

 but in the breeding of these a ready sale will be secured for all 

 surplus animals and at prices satisfactory to the grower. 



At the other extreme let me call your attention to the race 

 horse type as clean cut and intelligent in the head, finer in bone, 

 with more fire in the eye, longer in the neck, with extremely 

 sloping shoulders, allowing for that extension necessary to carry 

 high speed, flat in the bone of the leg, with long, springy pasterns 

 and deep rather than round body, of good length, not too full or 

 broad in the chest, long and slim in the quarters, insuring in 

 the length from the point of the hip to the hip joint and from the 

 hip joint to the stifle that length of stride which will lift and* 

 project the animal and sustain its speed for the mile. 



One of these horses is built for quiet, though active service, 

 under gentle treatment and with no thought of possible extreme 

 action ; the other is nervous and highly strung, requiring intelli- 

 gent care and the best treatment in order that all these qualities 

 may be directed towards the fastest possible record. Such a 

 horse finds his champions among the lovers of the turf, those 

 who with patience seek the education and development of all 

 the speed possible and reaching the highest market value in pro- 

 portion as the records are reduced. 



Here are the extremes; between them let me put the road 

 horse as the one best fitted to the farms of Maine and offering 

 the greatest inducements to the careful, intelligent farmer. The 

 horse standing 15.2 to 16 hands, weighing 1,050 to 1,150, of 

 good color, clean in the head, intelligent in the eye, with a well 

 shaped, arching neck, sloping in the shoulders, fairly broad in 

 the chest, deep in the barrel, short in the back, long in the quar- 

 ters, such a horse with good legs and feet and possessing courage 



