148 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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We have three classes of draft horses, the light, medium and heavv 

 draft. 



The light draft horses are generally spoken of as chunks and range in 

 weight from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds. The light draft horses are the 

 cheapest grade of draft horses and are bought largely for city delivery 

 wagons, city express and omnibus work. The medium drafters are 

 smaller and more active than the heavy draft horses. They range in 

 weight from 1,400 to 1,600 pounds. These horses are especially adapted 

 to express companies and artillery and are generally sold readily at a 

 good figure. 



The heavy draft are purchased for slow, heavy work. It is weight 

 and a conformation for great strength, combined with good feet and legs 

 and a substantial appearance, tli^t are important in this class of horses 

 and that make the brewers, the x^ackers and various manufacturing 

 concerns willing to pay long prices for them. They must weigh from 

 1,600 to 2,000 pounds. Quality remaining the same, the price varies 

 directly wath the weight, |25 to |50 value being added to each 100 pounds 

 added weight. 



Horses of the draft type have been selling during the past year for 

 from 1100 to |450 each. 



Col. Cooper, one of the principal dealers in horses at Chicago, recently 

 said that "The export trade is a great factor in the horse markets of to- 

 day, but our growing American cities are a greater factor." He is also 

 authority for the statement that of the 115,000 horses marketed in Chi- 

 cago last year, 40 per cent were draft horses. 



We can see by this that the draft horse is the great American market 

 horse. 



The coach horse type commands the highest price in the market, 

 strictly first-class ones bringing anywhere from |200 to |2,000. Coach 

 horses must not only weigh from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds, but they 

 must be stylish and handsome in form and good high actors. It is a 

 question here of style and carriage, combined with substance, rather 

 than extreme speed. The coach horse, to be a desirable coach horse, 

 must have considerable spirit. 



The market never has been and probably never will be overstocked 

 with high class coach horses. Besides the home market in our large 

 cities, there is a strong foreign demand for this grade of stock. 



The Cob or Hackney type is a small size coach horse, being if anything 

 a little less rangy in build, but possessing beauty in form, high action 

 and graceful carriage. 



Eoadsters. — It has been stated that 20 per cent of the horses reaching 

 our markets are of the roadster class ; the supply of the ordinary kind is 

 plentiful, while the good ones quickly change hands. Prices range from 

 |60 up, according to quality. To belong to the roadster type a horse 

 must weigh from 800 to 1,000 pounds, showing good roading qualities. 

 Saddle horses are sought for cavalry purposes and for those who enjoy 

 the luxury of horseback riding on a gaited saddler. These horses are 

 about 15.2 hands and slender of body and limb, but very handsome and 

 graceful. They are trained to go the various saddle gaits. After they 

 have received such training they bring from flOO to |300. 



It will be seen by the above that there is a demand for a good grade 

 of several types of horses. A demand which makes it possible to raise all 



