08 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



sixteen and one quarter to sixteen and three quarters hands, 

 and weighing from 1,350 to 1,500 pounds; a fine head, full, 

 bright eye, long, arched neck, oblique shoulders, deep chest, 

 short back, long quarters, strong, cordy legs, and perfect feet. 

 Their color, bay, full flowing mane and tail, and black legs, 

 usually clear of white." They have been long popular in Europe 

 as coach-horses, and have been sought for beyond the ability of 

 the native region to supply, which fact has largely injured the 

 reputation of the stock, as it has led to sale and use of horses not 

 so well bred, and wanting the well-established and distinctive 

 traits of excellence peculiar to this noble breed. When well- 

 bred mares of this breed are crossed with large and powerful 

 thorough-breds of bay color, the produce is nothing inferior to 

 the old Cleveland Bay. Americans have turned their attention 

 to this breed, and a few excellent specimens have been imported, 

 and the crossing of them on our well-formed, large trotting- 

 mares is giving a class of horses with style, action, and size 

 to command the best prices. The market for such horses will 

 not be overdone, since they are not only handsome but 

 most useful. 



The Farmer's Horse. We have not yet in America a 

 horse that meets all the wants of the well-to-do farmer. In the 

 Middle and Eastern States, where good roads abound, and the 

 farms are not so large, the horses which meet the views of the 

 farmer are not large enough for those of the Western States, where 

 gravel and good roads are scarce. There the heavy, powerful 

 draft-horses are finding a ready sale, and are imported to cross 

 on the mares of lighter caliber. The horse of docile temper and 

 hardy constitution, with open gait and free spirit, prompt and 

 reliable, never impatient under difficulty, ready to pull a light 

 or heavy load, on good or bad roads, and able to walk a mile in 

 six or eight minutes, or trot in three or four, and go to market 

 twenty miles and back in a half day, and to stand heat or cold, 

 soft roads, or hard, and not go lame, is yet to be bred for the 

 American farmer. He must be more docile than the American 

 trotter, more patient, and yet as spirited, and free of gait. He 

 must have the docility and power of the Percheron, but greater 



