The exterior of the horse . , whichthe American purchasers buy for stallions, at from $1200 to $1600. B.—Fast Heavy-Draught Horses. As we have said, the horses of this category diifer from those ofthe preceding in that they alternate the trot with the Avalk, the loadswhich they pull being much less heavy. In Paris, they are speciallyused for brewers and milkmens wagons, and for omnibuses andtramways. They are of smaller stature, and the body is less massive, lessample, and less muscular ; on the other hand, they have longer, lighter,and more slender members, longer necks, and a more rapid gait
The exterior of the horse . , whichthe American purchasers buy for stallions, at from $1200 to $1600. B.—Fast Heavy-Draught Horses. As we have said, the horses of this category diifer from those ofthe preceding in that they alternate the trot with the Avalk, the loadswhich they pull being much less heavy. In Paris, they are speciallyused for brewers and milkmens wagons, and for omnibuses andtramways. They are of smaller stature, and the body is less massive, lessample, and less muscular ; on the other hand, they have longer, lighter,and more slender members, longer necks, and a more rapid gait. Brewers Horses (Fig. 345) are from metres to metreshigh. They are harnessed singly to small two-wheeled wagons calledbrasseuses, also in pairs to light drays. They trot almost of them come from Perche, Beauce, and Normandy (Eure and HORSES OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. 853 Seine-Inférieure). Small Boulonnais and some coarse Breton horsesare found among them. Their average price varies from $300 to. Fig. 345.—Fast heavy-draught horse (brewers).(Reproduced from a photograph belonging to M. Delton.) ; but it is never very high, for they are not in demand asstallions ; they are not bulky enough for this service. The railkmens horses are a little smaller ; their height is metres. In France, they arc driven to two-wheeled wagons calledlaitière.^: They come from the same localities as the preceding, but theyare lighter in weight, more slender, and more active. Their pricevaries from $300 to $320. The subjects which we describe under the names of stage-COach,omnibus, and tramway horses, more bulky and heavier, althoughnot so tall, mark well the transition between the types of the fastheavy-draught, of which we have just spoken, and those of light-draught, which follow immediately afterwards. They are worked intwos and in threes in railroad trucks, in omnibuses which are used bylarge transportation companies, and in the street-cars, which, in spite
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