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they use larger horses and load heavier than if the busi- 

 ness is done in the outlying parts of a city and the 

 depots are considerable distances apart, in which case 

 lighter horses with more action are demanded. The size 

 of the horse, therefore, depends on the weight of the 

 wagon to which he is hitched. A typical express horse 

 is rather an upstanding, deep-bodied, closely coupled 

 horse with good bone, an abundance of quality, energy 



FIG. 149.— WAGON HORSES. WEIGHT, 3,400 POUNDS 



and spirit. He stands from 15.2 to 16.2 hands high and 

 weighs from 1,350 to 1,500 pounds. 



Delivery waigon horses, or as they are usually termed, 

 wagon horses, are similar to express horses, but the class 

 is broader in its scope, including horses of common and 

 inferior grades, as well as of good and choice grades. 

 The demand for delivery Wagon horses is large and comes 

 from all kinds of retail and wholesale mercantile houses, 

 such as meat shops, milk houses, grocery houses, dry- 

 goods firms, hardware merchants, and the like. As a 

 rule, delivery horses are not so large as express horses 

 and not of as high a grade, as most mercantile firms are 



