HOW TO BUY AND SELL A HORSE. 



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bred is to be preferred. The taste for hunting is largel}^ indulged in 

 in the South, and, as wealth increases, it will become more and more fash- 

 ionable in the West. In fact, the demand for horses of high form and 



A CHOICE EXPRESS DELIVERY HORSE. 



Note the conformation of ^reat physical endurance indicated by his obliquely 

 ■^et shoulder, depth and compactness of body, shortness of back, closeness of 

 coupling, unusual length of croup, well set pasterns and good shaped feet. 

 Height, 16 hands; weight, 14riO pounds. 



A typical expiess horse is rather an up-standing, deep bodied, closely coupled 

 liorse with good bone, an abundance of quality, energy and spirit. He should 

 .stand from 15-3 to 16-2 hands high and weigh from 1350 to 1500 pounds in good 

 flesh. The average express horse is about 16 hands high and weighs about 1400 

 pounds in working condition. His head should be neat, his neck of good length 

 and crest well developed. His shoulders should be obliquely set, coupled with 

 a short, well muscled back and strong loin. His croup should be broad, rounding 

 and well muscled, his quarters dee^ and thighs broad. He should not be "goose- 

 rumped" nor cut up in the flank. His underpinning should be of the very best, 

 his cannons broad and clean and hoofs of a dense, tough horn of a waxy nature. 

 The horse above shown is typical of that class and practically a perfect sample. 



breeding, for saddle use, is increasing in the West, and many Kentucky 

 and Tennessee horses are bought for this purpose. It must be con- 

 fessed, that as a rule they are not as good as they ought to be, many of 

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