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hands high, and weigh nine to twelve or thirteen hundred pounds 
in fair condition of flesh. They are bred and reared by all good 
farmers who make horse-rearing a branch of their industry, and are 
bought and distributed all over the country, in village, town and 
cit}', where, aside from mere fancy use, the horse is needed. Good 
stallions are kept for service in almost every neighborhood of the 
land, and of these the horse-breeder takes his choice for service to 
his mares, and succeeds in their production as his skill and care 
may determine. There is another example of the value of our 
horse of all work in Great Britain, which can boast as good horses 
of their kind, as any part of Europe. Since the street rail-car has 
been introduced into Great Britain, within the past year or tw’o, it 
has been found that they had no class of horses especially fitted for 
that work. Tt required the sinewy, elastic movement, coupled with 
the medium size and endurance of our all-work horse. As a con¬ 
sequence, many hundreds of American horses have been purchased 
in our northern states and Canada for export to Britain, for other 
purposes as well as for street railways, and the trade is still con¬ 
tinued to the mutual advantage of both countries. 
Another class demanded for exclusive purposes is 
The draught horse., proper., needed for heavy farm labors, and 
drawing the weighty loads in our commercial and manufacturing 
cities and towns, for which the ordinary horse of our farmers is in¬ 
competent. Of this class, if we. have any which may be called 
“ ancient ” among us — say a hundred years or more — first in order 
stands the Conestoga., of Pennsylvania. The name is a local one, 
taken from a river of the central part of that state. He is supposed 
to be a native of Flanders, and to have been introduced by the 
German immigrants soon after they settled in Pennsylvania some 
time in the last century. This horse is still reared in Pennsylvania, 
but in smaller numbers than formerly, and in several other states, 
and is a decided favorite with those who breed and use them. 
Nearly or quite a hundred years ago, when the settlements of that 
state had extended westward over the Alleghany mountains, when 
towns began to spring up, and heavy transportation between them 
and the seaboard became necessary, the huge canvas-covered wag¬ 
ons, carying six tons and upwards of merchandise, were dravvn by 
spans of four to eight horses, with sometimes a ninth one in single 
harness as a leader. Those horses ranged from sixteen and a half 
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