1.T8 The Horsk Industry in iSTEW York State 



tliousand should ever essay the breeding of these equine giants. 

 It is a business by itself, to which only a chosen few are called. 

 For the chunk, however, there will be use so long as horses endure 

 among our useful domestic animals. On the farm they can, in 

 sutticient numbers, pull the gang plow, cultivate the corn and do 

 all the other work, while on the road they can haul to market all 

 the load an ordinary farm wagon can carry. 



In the city a pair of horses weighing 2,800 to 3,000 pounds 

 can do practically whatever a pair is required to do, while throe 



Fig. 58.— Typical Farm Chunk. 



of tbem abreast can handle any load that can advantageously be 

 navigated about the streets. In the commoner shapes they do the 

 excavation and other similar rough work. In the higher grades 

 they horse the wagons of the great merchants, and, in short, fill 

 the general urban equine bill. 



This true, it follows that the farmer who always has for sale 

 a few shapely chunks of the type and weight specified, will always 

 find a ready market. He will be producing, so to speak, standard 

 goods, for which the demand is universal. The more care he 



