Wichita eagle., 1889-12-20

dispensable, creates in every city and town
q market for horses-nos trotfing horses
or running horses, but draught horses
dition othe necessity for heavy horses to
move heavy freight. they are selected be-
cause they are more attractive than small
horses. In large cities there is . rivalry
amongst leading merchants and manufac-
turers to get the finest teams in the coun-
try for use upon the streets They use
them as an advertisement and to crafty
their ambition to have the best. as well as
to be useful in delivering their wares.
Marshall Field, John v. Farwell & Co,
and hundred other jobbing houses and
manufacturers in Chicago keep q man
whose sole business is to secure the hand
soonest matched horses in the market.
Have you ever known them to be seek
ing for small horses, or has any man ever
been able TO sell team of small horses, no
matter how stylish, to this trader All the
express companies, especially in our large
cities where they spend more money for
mere show, buy the best horses they can
get-we mean the largest and best.
We remember seeing Herrlng's safes
hauled about New York for many years
by TOUR horses driven tandem.
hese horses were very large and were
models of style and would command a
long price. say from 81. coo to 1900 pair.
II Mr.. Herring did not want them, his ri
walls in business would take them and the
safe men being supplied, there were thous-
ands OF manufacturers and merchants
looking for just such horses.
Some about 1875 or 1876, Babbitt. the
great soap manufacturer, bought twenty
Percheron stations of N. w. Durham, of
Illinois, who imported these horses from
France. Mr.. Babbitt wanted the size and
style which these horses gave TO use in his
business in hauling the raw material to
his factory and delivering his manufac-
rured goods to the jobhing houses aud to
the shipping points about New York.
Mr. Babbitt did not want stations, but
he could not get the great size and style
which he required in any other way. These
horses weighed on an average of !, 200
pounds. The price paid for them was ST.
$40 each. Amongst other and varied uses
to which the heavy horse is adapted, and
for which the small horse cannot be profit
ably employed, we may mention the mo-
ing of coal, iron, timber, lumber, stone,
cotton in bales and all kinds of mercnan-
disc, in short all the work carried on in
large towns and cities called draying or
trucking. The brewers in large cities use
very fine large horses. Then there are the
omnibuses, heavy coaches and family car
riages all to be supplied with heavy horses.
Ii The omn,buses no not use heavy horses
ii is because they cannot get them. or
rather because they can get medium sized
or small horses so much cheaper that they
are tempted to use the latter.
As to the size of an eastern Garage team
there is great misapprehenslon in the
west, and it may by profitable to digress
SO far from our subject as to give some in
formation on this point.
Many of our agricultural societies in
making up their premium lists and con-
found the coach or carriage team with the
buggy or roadster team. A buggy team
may be any size from 1900 pounds for the
pair. down. If the team is well formed,
well matched and has action enough,
liz this case being the
essential quality. A family carriage team
should weigh not less than ., 400 pounds
and would be more valuable, other things
being equal, to weigh 2,6CO or 2, 100 pounds
After securing size, styls is the only quail
fication, or we may state the case more
correctly by declaring that style is the
only quality properly required in a car
riage team, for this implies size enough to
give that impression of majesty. watch is
the chief element of value in a pair of car
riage horses. This grendeur of appear
ance a little team can never possess no
matter how Systematically they may be
moulded. We have purposely left out the
quality of action for the reason that pair
beyond what is a necessary element of
style. They can not possess style without
having an elastic and genteel step and
more than this is not required. The
family carriage is never used for racing
nor for rapid driving. No well bred lady
permits her carriage to be driven more
than six miles per hour, usua ly much
slower. The question is not how quickly
the lady can drive from her manson on
Fifth avenue to Central park, but rather
how slowly she can drive and how dis
tingue she can appear, and her horses are
AL important factor In her make up. She
drives out on the boulevard commanding
respect from the statelIness of her horses
and the elegance of her eQuippage. while
her husband goes flying out on the Bloom
lngdale road or over TO the island conquer
ing the right to lead the road by The force
of muscle and nerve possessed by his little
roadsiers. Which is the better team of
the two is question which the awarding
committee ut All agricultural fair should
never be called upon to decide The
horses are entirely different, and should be
shown in different classes.
The prices at which heavy horses sell
vary according to size and quality, but
they are never sold at u sacrifice to The
breeder. A pair of horses weighing ESQ
well matched, we'll broken, very
stylish, kind and sound, would range Ill |
value from $500 to S, 900, often higher than |
The latter figure and even lower than the |
former, depending upon their merits more |
han the condition OF the money market. !
Tor such horses are always in demand, and |
The reason we give so wide range in pos |
i ole prices is because OF the difficulty OF |
describing very fine horse on paper.
They might be taken for coach team. |
,r by some of the express companies, or |
some mercantile or manufacturing firms |
1t even the highest price mentioned. But |
suppose you never raise such pair Of |
horses as will sell for even $500. II you |
breed good sized horse you are certain to |
ind ready cash market for him at moro |
han mis- cost, and this is really the bright |
Iide of the picture. There are no blanks |
q this business. Your heavy horses are as
ItAnle as tat steers