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TYPES AND BREEDS 



The Work Horse Division. — Drafters have already been 

 described as the power type. Drafters are worked in single, 

 pair, three-way, four-, or six-horse hitches. The demand for the 

 highest class of draft hoi*ses comes chiefly from city business 

 firms who make the appearance of their horses and wagons 

 on the streets a feature of their advertising policies (Figs. 38, 

 39, and 40). 



In a consideration of draft form, height is secondary to 

 weight and station. In the selection of market draft geldings, 

 however, height is important. While the low set, compact horse 



Fig. 38. — A trey or three-way hitch of drafters to truck, showing the scale, form, and con- 

 formation of horses of this class, also the manner of hitching. 



is most powerful, such chunky fonn is not conducive to as great 

 size as that of more range and higiier stature. This is especially 

 true of immature draft colts. There must be considerable 

 " stretch " to them if they are to attain the required size at 

 maturity. An upstanding growthy two-year-old gives greater 

 promise than the smoothly turned, mature looking chunk of 

 the same age. Growth takes place first upward, then doAvnward 

 and outward. 



Appearance, as well as power, counts in the serv^ice for which 

 the highest class of draft geldings are bought, and unless a horse 

 has stature he appears " squatty " before the big wagons or 

 trucks to which he is put. 



