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merely happened and have not been 
the result of purposeful breeding. This 
has been acknowledged officially and the 
United States Department of Agriculture 
is now conducting experiments in Colo¬ 
rado to the end that we may have 
American coach horses of a distinct 
tvpe. Meanwhile we have depended 
largely on the union of hackneys and 
French coachers with our own trotting 
stock. These combinations have not 
been entirely happy, for both the Eng¬ 
lish and French heavy horses are more 
“cold blooded” than our own and the 
progeny of such matings have gener¬ 
ally not been an improvement on either 
line of blood. 
Still station horses and coach horses 
may be had. They should be near to 
16 hands in height and weigh somewhere 
about 1200 pounds. Such a horse sym¬ 
metrically formed and clean in action 
can carry a station wagon or a rock- 
away at a good pace over any road not 
too long or too heavy of grade. These 
two matters—length of road and steep¬ 
ness of grade—should be very carefully 
considered when selecting both horse 
and station wagon. Where the road 
is either hilly or long a carriage of as little 
weight as is consistent with strength 
and durability should be selected. And 
tolerably light wagons of much strength 
can be built in this country where wood 
is available that is both tough and light. 
But in equipages we are apt to take our 
ultra-fashions from England, where car¬ 
riages are heavier than they need be 
when our hickory wood is used in con¬ 
struction. If we must have heavy wag¬ 
ons we must have heavy horses or use a 
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pair to do the work which, under other 
conditions, might be done by one. De¬ 
pend upon it, however, that it is more 
difficult to get a large heavy horse that is 
at once clever and smart than a smaller 
one, and the weight of the load to be 
drawn must in a great measure deter¬ 
mine the size. These things being 
determined the next most important 
consideration for a station horse is his 
temper. He must be amiable. A rest¬ 
less and fretful horse has no place in 
such work, where there are often fright- 
somesightsandsounds to be encountered. 
Now suppose the one work the horse 
is to do is to be under the saddle. Here 
we must consider two chief things—the 
skill' of the rider and his weight. An 
unskilful rider or a beginner in the art 
should have a very quiet, even a sluggish 
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