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TYPES AND BREEDS 



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

 the contractors and the farm trade. 



Expressers 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 stepping away at a sharp trot (Fig. 

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

 finish " and as " coaehers with draft horse substance." Ex- 

 pressers vary in weight from 1250 to 1500 pounds, and serve a 

 wide range of iises in the numerous lines of delivery service. 



Fig. 41. — A pair of chunks to truck, showinK the extremely drafty form, bone, and rugged- 

 neS3 topical of this class. 



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

 mand for whicli comes from those who make horses the medium 

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

 must have class and be deficient only in condition. 



Heavy Harness Horse Division. — There is a suggestiveness 

 about the term heavy harness which is not generally cortipre- 

 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 



