192 FARM AND SCHOOL PROBLEMS. 



2. The total number of draft animals displaced by motor trucks is 

 what per cent of the total number of draft animals in the United States? 



3. If the motor truck has facilitated the transfer from farm and 

 factory, to railroads and steamships, from mine to smelter, from the 

 quarry to the building of highways, from stores to distributing points 

 and patrons, from the farm and garden to the public market, what effect 

 will this have on the demand for more small farms in the vicinity of 

 the city? 



Will it increase the demand for more horses? 



FIG. 2. Clydesdale mare Draft Type. 



4. If the motor truck has increased the production and demand for 

 more necessaries of life, show how this means a better market for the 

 careful breeder of horses? 



Quality and Conformation of Draft Horses. 



The typical, ideal draft horse, according to A. S. Alexander, 

 of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, stands over 16 hands (5 

 feet 4 inches) and under 18 hands high, and weighs 1,600 pounds 

 or more in ordinary flesh. 



