. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. d tails ofvery many of the horses which claim to be pure Morgans. Thepeculiar characteristic, however, of these horses, is the shortnessof their backs, the roundness of their barrels, and the closeness oftheir ribbing up. One would say that they are ponies until hecomes to stand beside them, when he is astonished to find that theyare oftener over than under sixteen hands in height. THE CONESTOGA DRAUGHT-HORSE. The last on the list of American horses is that known underthe above name, which was given to it from bein
. The horse in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease. d tails ofvery many of the horses which claim to be pure Morgans. Thepeculiar characteristic, however, of these horses, is the shortnessof their backs, the roundness of their barrels, and the closeness oftheir ribbing up. One would say that they are ponies until hecomes to stand beside them, when he is astonished to find that theyare oftener over than under sixteen hands in height. THE CONESTOGA DRAUGHT-HORSE. The last on the list of American horses is that known underthe above name, which was given to it from being produced in thevalley of Conestoga, within the state of Pennsylvania. It is a verylarge muscular horse, often reaching to seventeen hands and up-wards, and closely resembling the heaviest breeds of German and * In a race against time (October 17th, 1867), Kentucky, the famousson of Lexington, then four years old, ran 4 miles in 7 min. 31f sec. Thefirst two miles were run in 3 min. 36 sec., the tirst three in 5 min. 29 carried a weight of 120 lbs. 56 THE CONESTOGA DRAUGHT-HORSK. Flemish cart-horses. The early settlers of this part of the UnitedStates were mostly Germans, and they either brought over withthem some of the horses of their country, or else they have sinceselected from those within their reach the animals most resemblingin appearance their old favorites when in their fatherland. Thereis, however, no record of the origin of the breed, and all that canbe done is to describe it as it now exists. The accompanying sketch embodies the general appearanceof these horses, and by comparing it with the London dray-horse,it will be seen that it differs only slightly, having the same heavyoutline of form, united with similar comparatively light limbs, butnot burdened with the mountains of flesh and heavy crests whichhave been produced in England for purposes of show. In Penn-sylvania, these horses are chiefly used for wagons, and some fewof them, when of in
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