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TYPES AND BREEDS 



of breweries. The lower grade of cliunks meets the demand of 

 the contractors and the farm trade. 



Exp^essers are rapid draft horses, capable of working at the 

 trot. They have enough of the draft form to insure the requisite 

 size, substance, and power, at the same time departing from the 

 draft type in that they are more rangy and less massive, in order 

 that they may be capable of stepjjing away at a sharp trot (Fig. 

 42). They have been referred to as "" drafters Avith coach horse 

 finish " and as '' coachers with draft horse substance." Ex- 

 pressers vary in weight from 1250 to 1500 ])ound8, and serve a 

 wide ranee of uses in the numerous lines of deliverv service. 



Fig. 41. — A pair of chunks to truck, -showing the cxtninilx (lratt\- form, bone, and rugged- 

 ness typical of this class. 



Feeders arc thin horses of any of the above classes, the de- 

 mand for which comes from those who make horses the medium 

 through which to market their corn. A feeder, to be profitable, 

 must have class and l)e deficient only in condition. 



Heavy Harness Horse Division. — There is a suggestiveness 

 about the term heavy harness which is not generally compre- 

 hended. Harness horses are of two classes, heavy and light, the 

 adjective in each case qualifying the harness and not the horse. 

 The heavy harness horse is one of fashion, of English creation, 

 and it is to English sentiment that he owes his name. He con- 

 forms to the Englishman's idea that " to drive handsomely one 



