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143. The breed and type. — Choose the breed which best suits 
the conditions, the markets, and the tastes of the breeders. There 
is no best breed or type for all conditions. Light horses naturally 
belong on land devoted to grass, to dairy industry, and to market- 
gardening, where but little plowing and other heavy horse work 
is required, and the necessity of reaching the market, the station, 
or the creamery requires quick-moving horses. 
On farms devoted to fruit-growing and the like, where the horse 
work is somewhat heavier than on the dairy farm, the coach horse 
Fic. 38.— Uniform Percheron mares. 
may be used. Coach horses are well adapted to fruit farms with 
one exception, — they are rather too tall to be used to best advan- 
tage in tilling under trees in the orchards. 
On grain farms, where there is much plowing and the work to 
be done is hard, heavy horses are needed. On general farms the 
draft horse finds his true place. Draft horses can be reared with 
less risk than the lighter and more active types, such as the roadster 
and the coachers. They do not require so much training, and can 
be put to light work younger. The draft horse is in great demand 
for city traffic. Again, the roadster and the coacher require much 
