Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-06-25
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATTELL
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VIII
HEAVY DRAUGHT-HORSES
F these horses Sidney says ::


temperament should be essentially placid who be OF
value the condition life which and have called him
greatly exceed and weight the useful class of
horses, is found in the London dray-horse
The illustration this chapter copied portrait of
the finest the Messrs Barclay the great brewers
and end of the scale what the portrait of the blood
horse, the Drake does a the other
The boodhorsc and the dray horse will breed together and
their produce will be fertile but with the exception Of that fact
history, qualities differ much those the horse
poor friend the enduring The carthosc
requires courage courage which blood bcstows
he requires pluck heavy load pull and
again required until he the mass but courage of
the blood horse would him quite place The beauty of
the carthorc depends not only quality and symmetry but on
ccphantnc pondcrosy that bcspcaks power every
muscle and every limb
The carthorsc distinct breed which soil climate and
may decrease diminish vary; but which
change selection however careful could convert within hso
ioa times into anything but cathorsc destined for drawing
heavy loads
In the same wav the boodhorse uncrossed may be as
small Sandman pony barb tall the last roaring
the English but external changes bring his bones his
muscles his blood the condition the draughhorsc breed
In the East the birthplace the boodhorc the breed
unknown
When the India government wished to make present to
Runec Singh the old Lion OF Lahore, they him pair
London dy eighteen hands high these perfectly
useless in that country where heavy work much better done by
elephants but the objects unboundcd establishment and admiration
land where any horse fifteen hands tall and where the
cart breed is unknown
Many specimens OF fairly good daughthorsc may be found
in Flanders and Northern Germany whence derived the progcn
cary Breeds France very
OF small muscular arhorsc be purchased especially in Paris
and the provinces bordering Belgium The crchcron already
described is the useful you
travel south you find the and the doing cahorsc work
until you pass the line where road work the mule preferred
either horse But England that
every other kind live stock valuable agriculture has
the greatest perfection because the principles breeding
have been carefully considered by any
other country and also because the country where compared
with the Europe the roads good the
the hereditary landowners, pride duty without
regard immediate profit have led the this every other
stock breeding Improvement
The heavy draughthorsc which any
record bred in those fertile districts Northern Europe
agriculture advanced while condition
little babarous
'Whcn William possession of throne left vacant
by James H. the Dutchmcn who followed his and
work drain the cns of brought with them the
heavy black horses OF their country and from somewhere about that
time the black carthose became naurad England and has
since reached its highest development the fen counties.
somewhat lighter animal with good deal the breed
in him. had been in use from the eleventh century as long heavy
nothing less powerful than Mecklenburg
habd carthorse would bear knight cncacd iron and steel
But these huge animals expected beyond
except about hundred yards tournament
battlefield The knights did ride these pondcous and
picturesque btes upon journeys or for pleasure hunting Their
squres led the warho bearing the while the knight
without it, mounted good roadster hack prancng genet
The ideas the general public the subject
have been very much confused by the historical pictures eminent
artists who they paid any attention details generally
drew the horses conventional model decidedly
horse descent The and tail being the important points
in artistic point view modern painters have Eastern
prnces-hom Saladn the last Shah of Pcrsia-on Flemish
destres; and Boadcea harangue the
drawn by her ragged hill ponies but by enough
TO be hanessed to Queen Vctona's coach.
In modern England daughhorse present
perfection because they strictly bred draw heavy weights and
carry heavy
"Accordng agricultural writer's the the
present century there distinct breeds daughthorse
least half dozen English countless present nearly all such dis
ncons have been eaced until quite recently only by