THE DIFFERENT BREEDS. 



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haired leg, or clean leg, no man can tell one from another. 

 All are most valuable and come from one source. 



They have become what we see them by climatic influence, 

 feed and environment. We must have weight to suit the 

 city markets. A proud-stepping, vigorous, powerful Draught 

 Horse, with beautiful form, is eagerly demanded by com- 

 merce. Only high-class mares and the best Draught sires 

 can produce such horses. Too many small chunks are bred. 

 They fail to bring 

 Draught- Horse prices, 

 and their breeders then 

 pronounce Draught- 

 Horse breeding a failure. 



A requisite for the far- 

 mer's horse is early ma- 

 turity, or size and strength 

 to perform much of the 

 farmer's necessary work 

 while growing or being 

 fitted for market, and 

 this without breaking 

 down or being injured in any way l)y such work. 



He should be of medium size, evenly proportioned, with 

 flat limbs powerfully jointed, but not coarse. Bays, browns 

 and chestnuts are the favorite colors. 



Select animals with a swinging road gait that will draw 

 two men a mile in four minutes, or ten miles an hour — a horse 

 that can go fifty to sixty miles in a day without feeling it. 

 The action should be courageous and free, and he should 

 have bottom enough to repeat the performance as frequently 

 as one may desire. It is not difhcult to get a high price for 

 such horses. The man who has any Hackneys, French 

 Coachers, or Cleveland Bays, is not far out of the way. 



IIE.\D OF DRAUGHT HORSE. 



