MARKET CLASSES OF HOESES. 



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Here some of the Chicago trade terms are ex- 

 plained. The shibboleth of the professional 

 hoirse dealer, however, varies. 



Horses are mostly sold at auction in the great 

 markets of the West. In Chicago and generally 

 elsewhere they are sold under certain stated 

 conditions, which are well understood. If a 

 horse is sold "to be serviceably sound " he must 

 have nothing wrong about him that will mate- 

 rially impair his value as a worker at his busi- 

 ness. In other words, he must be practically 

 sound in wind, limb and eye and body, have no 

 bad habits, must pull true and be well broken. 

 A horse that does not fill this bill or any other 

 form X)f guarantee may be rejected and thrown 

 back on the hands of the seller at any time be- 

 fore noon of the day following that on which 

 the purchase was made. A horse may also be 

 sold " to be serviceably sound " with some defect 

 pointed out, which goes with him. It is only 

 once in a whole that horses are sold as ' ' sound, ' ' 

 and then only to "start something. " "Legs 

 go" means that whatever is on his legs goes 

 with the horse, but he must be right in his wind, 

 pull true and he must not be lame. "To wind 

 and work" predicates that the horse is sound 

 in his wind and will work all right. "Worker 

 only" means that the horse will pull true and 

 nothing more. "At the end of the halter" indi- 

 cates that the purchaser has bought a horse, 

 when his bid is the last one accepted by the 



