Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-28
Market Types Explained.

eXproSSefS OF llBHI uIANels, poN' W "
and good to choice. A leading morse
commission firm in Chicago explains as
| follows: !.
Loggers belong to the heavy draf'
class and are supposed to be a Dig
rough horse weighing from 1900 TO L.
700 pounds. On account OF belhe
rough or blemished they go to the
woods. The more smooth draft nor
SEES with quality go to the city and tof
export.
"Teeders are draft bred horses OF
extra quality three to five years ola'
thin in flesh, and are bought by Ohio
PENNSYLVANIA, and Illinois feeders, FED
out and finished for the market, weigh
ing when fed out ready for market
from 1900 to 1000 pounds. Those
weighing from 1900 to 1850 pounds
are called wagon horses. Those weigh
ing from 1850 to 1900 pounds go no
the express companies. The good
shaped ones weighing from Lou TO
1850 pounds belong to the OMNIBUS
class They are used in this country
for wagon horses and are exported 10
the old countries and used for wagon
horses and for omnibus horses.
"An express horse is horse OF
smooth conformation, ranging between
coach horse and q draft horse, stand
ing from Is and three-fourths to SIX
teen and one fourth hands high, ana
weighing from 1880 to 1900 POUNDS
on the straight, round barrel order
and very active, dresses UP well IN
harness with some style and action.
with straight line movement, ana
is about as trim and nice and sfnooth
bordering on the conformation OF
coach horse with a strong MIDDLE with
plenty OF substance, good bone and
good feet, rather clean and trim IN
the ears, head and neck, and is preo
with quite sprinkling of the harness
blood crossed with the draft.
"The best wagon and express horses
are a grade OF Percheron and are
crossed up with the harness bred horse
to fill the use that they are intended
for - wagon, omnibus, and express.
They belong to the same class ana
their size indicates the division that
they belong to.
"All drivers belong to the same
class. The first division is we'll bred
of the trotting type high classed .in
conformation with all Of the qualities
required for a road, carriage, ana
coach horse, and every part OF this
horse Is In harmony and In Keeping
with every other part OF the same
| animal, and when in harness and lr
motion his style, action and conforma-
ton are beautiful He ranges In size
| from fifteen and one-half hands and
| weighing 1,O50 to LOO pounds up to
sixteen hands and Weighing up as high
| as 1900 pounds. but the happy medium
is the best-fifteen and three-fourth@
hands, weighing LOO to l,150 pounds
These horses must be fine in the head
| and neck. good length of neck, neck
setting high on the withers; short In
| the back, the Morgan type being the
best: with plenty of knee action. also
hook action. This division of Glass
is really the highest classed horse
that the world has ever produced.
"These are the principal points, but
time and space forbid of giving a full
detail Of all that is required for this
kind of horse. Disposition, gait
speed and way Of going are other very
| important requirements. and to de-
scribe all that is required would take
up too much space. In short, there
| is only one road. carriage and coach
| horse, and the only way that he car
| be produced Is by using the blood OF
| the American trotter.
"Drivers, poor to good, Is another
division Of Class 1. They range all OF
| the way from a fair kind of buggy
or business horse down to a run-abont
| horse and the low scrub driver. OF
course, they are harness bred horses
and as they run up to best quality
some are extra we'll bred and border
ing on to the high class Of No. 1.
Chunks are block horse weighine
from 1000 to 1,400 pounds low set and
wide and a very, useful, serviceable
| horse"
Turkeys Are Scarce.
"The crop Of turkeys in Iowa II
going to be light this year." sale
George w. Franklin, associate editor Of
! the Iowa Homestead in Des Motnes s
few days ago. mot since 1901 have
| the Iowa farmers raised many turkey:
and especially during the past few
years when wet cold springs have kill.
ed the young birds has the supply beer
! limited.
iowa people have taken UP more
the raising Of chickens. In parts o.
Rhode Island there are entire commun.
tiles whose principal occupation is thu
raising of turkeys and chickens. Blu
they raise a great many more turkey:
there than we do here. They are close
to the big markets, New York City
Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia
and the demand always is such tina
the turkey raisers get good prices. Blu
out here in Iowa it seems 1t pays bet.
ter to raise chickens at least the com.
parative number raised would 80 indl
cate.
| ri suppose along about Thanksgiving
time there will be a goodly number o
turkeys on the market. but there az.
few in sight just yet
Electricity on the Farm.
| But there are many ways In which
electricity may ease the strain of Earn
work, increase efficiency of farming
operations, and give Injuries to Tx
farmer and his family now only avail
J able to the denizen Of densely popu
lated towns.
Electricity may now be generated
at every waterfall, conducted to mali
lines and led and distributed as need
ed in any direction, and may be con
sidered available in any locality wher'
organization or determination ma!
summon it, 1t may do the blowing
narrowing and seeding in many places
ona nroha1o1y the harvesting ant