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horse weighs around 1,400 pounds, is preferably 

 rather light in bone, of build almost typically 

 Percheron and always very smooth. The east- 

 ern wagon horse, taken mostly for New York 

 trade, is coachlike in conformation and quality, 

 smaller than the Boston article and handsome. 

 The Pittsburg wagon horse is a ruggeder propo- 

 sition altogether and in weight around 1,450 

 pounds. This shows how futile it would be to 

 try to describe wagon horses as a general classi- 

 fication. Chunks are short and thick and draf ty 

 in conformation, range in weight from 1,250 to 

 1,550 pounds and are variously sorted for va- 

 rious localities. It is not easy to divide them off 

 from the wagon horses. Southern chunks are 

 light, weighing around 1,100 pounds or there- 

 abouts, with less draft blood and more warm 

 blood about them than any of the foregoing 

 classes. Farm workers are anything and every- 

 thing. If a horse in late winter and early spring 

 will not class anywhere else, he goes as a farm 

 worker or farm chunk. Feeders are thin 

 horses of the drafter class. 



Expressers may briefly be described as over- 

 grown, low-quality coachers. They must have 

 a bit of draft blood about them to give them 

 size, but it must not show in preponderance. 

 They must be able to get out and trot quickly 

 and nervily with a big load behind them. They 

 range in weight from 1,250 to 1,500 pounds 

 high-headed, smoothly turned, good-acting 



