HORSES OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. 



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Seine-Inferieure). Small Boulonnais and some coarse Breton horses 

 are found among them. Their average price varies from $300 to 



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Fig. 345.— Fast heavy-draught horse (brewers'). 

 (Reproduced from a photograph belonging to M. Delton.) 



$350 ; but it is never very high, for they are not in demand as 

 stallions ; they are not bulky enough for this service. 



The milkmen's horses are a little smaller ; their height is only 

 1.60 metres. In France, they are driven to two- wheeled wagons called 

 laitieres. They come from the same localities as the preceding, but they 

 are lighter in weight, more slender, and more active. Their price 

 varies from $300 to $320. 



The subjects which we describe under the names of stage-coach, 

 omnibus, and tramway horses, more bulky and heavier, although 

 not so tall, mark well the transition between the types of the fast 

 heavy-draught, of which we have just spoken, and those of light- 

 draught, which follow immediately afterwards. They are worked in 

 twos and in threes in railroad trucks, in omnibuses which are used by 

 large transportation companies, and in the street-cars, which, in spite 

 of their considerable volume, have a very weak coefficient of traction, 

 allowing the use of lighter motors, and therefore lessening the expense 

 of purchase and of keep. 



