THE BREEDS OF HORSES 



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Table Giving Name, Native Country, Height, Weight, 

 Uses and Color of Each of the Breeds of Light 

 Horses 



* 14.2 equals 14 hands and 2 inches. All heights are recorded in this manner 

 in this book. 



t Usually not considered a breed, merely a family of the Standardbrel. 



The draft breeds. — The horse is very susceptible to 

 climatic conditions, perhaps more so than any other 

 animal domesticated by man. Temperate climate, fertile, 

 grassy plains with abundant nutrition, produce horses 

 distinguished for size and strength ; and, as we have seen, 

 high lands and mountain ranges, with bleak, cold climate 

 and scanty subsistence, dwarf the frame and produce a 

 hardy, diminutive animal. There is no exception to this in 

 Nature, though man may do much by supplying warm 

 stables and abundant food, and by selection to counteract 

 the influence of climate, but with the utmost care the 

 tendency will be much as suggested. Thus the fertile 

 plains of Germany and France (Flanders region), with 

 their agreeable climate and abundant herbage, have pro- 



