Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ^ indulged inin the South, and, as wealth increases, it will become more and more fash-ionable in the West. In fact, the demand for horses of high form and. A CHOICE EXPRESS DELIVERY HORSE. Note the conformation of ^reat physical endurance indicated by his obliquely?^et shoulder, depth and compactness of body, shortness of b
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . ^ indulged inin the South, and, as wealth increases, it will become more and more fash-ionable in the West. In fact, the demand for horses of high form and. A CHOICE EXPRESS DELIVERY HORSE. Note the conformation of ^reat physical endurance indicated by his obliquely?^et shoulder, depth and compactness of body, shortness of back, closeness ofcoupling, unusual length of croup, well set pasterns and good shaped , 16 hands; weight, 14riO pounds. A typical expiess horse is rather an up-standing, deep bodied, closely coupledliorse with good bone, an abundance of quality, energy and spirit. He from 15-3 to 16-2 hands high and weigh from 1350 to 1500 pounds in goodflesh. The average express horse is about 16 hands high and weighs about 1400pounds in working condition. His head should be neat, his neck of good lengthand crest well developed. His shoulders should be obliquely set, coupled witha short, well muscled back and strong loin. His croup should be broad, roundingand well muscled, his quarters dee^ and thighs broad. He should not be goose-rumped nor cut up in the flank. His underpinning should be of the very best,hi
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