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active, and should keep his feet well under him and throw enough 

 weight into the collar to move a heavy load at the walk, or a lighter 

 load at the trot. As in the previous classes, he should be a straight- 

 line mover, with possibly a little more knee and hock action. 



Delivery wagon horses are not as large as expressers, and not as 

 high-grade animals; most mercantile firms are not such liberal buyers 

 as the express companies, and consequently they get a cheaper grade 

 of horses. However, this is not always true, as some of the large 

 department stores, whose deliveries serve as an advertisement, will pay 

 more for the very best than express companies, thus getting very choice 

 animals. The conformation requirements are practically the same as 

 for express horses, except they are not quite so large, standing from 15 



Fig. 186. — Light artillery horse. 



to 16 hands, and weighing from 1,100 to 1,400 pounds. The action 

 requirements are the same as for express horses, though some are not 

 as good actors. The demand for delivery wagon horses comes from 

 all kinds of retail and wholesale mercantile houses, such as meat shops, 

 milk houses, grocery houses, dry goods firms, and hardware merchants, 

 for use on light wagons for parcel delivery. Some of the coarser, 

 rougher ones are used on the huckster wagons, junk wagons, sand 

 wagons, and by contractors for cellar excavating, street cleaning, rail- 

 road grading, or almost any kind of rough, heavy work. 



Light artillery horses conform rather closely to the better grades 

 of delivery wagon horses of the same weight. The following specifica- 

 tions, prepared under the direction of the Quartermaster General of 

 the U. S, War Department, clearly set forth the requirements. 



