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 (14590830628)

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Title: 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
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries



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best of them for use as carriage horses, and others for anything exceptheavy draft in cities, for express work, drawing omnibuses and otherlabor, requiring style and action, combined with strength. The figure BREEDS OF HORSES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 12^ page 99 front view, and page 103 side view, and page 107 back view ofhind quarters will illustrate our meannig. Light Farm Horses.—There is another horse that may well tind aplace on all large farms, a horse al)out tifteen hands high and weighing
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i»oU to lOrA) pounds. Sucli trom coh, a square-built, active animal, good for the saddle and all light work.Such a horse is represented on the preceding page. The tail, however,ihould never be docked : for docking is a barbarous ))ractice, and one now 124 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. happily gone out of fashion The Morgans, or rather their crosses,when bred up to the weight last mentioned, make admirable horses oithis claGS. The Gold Dust Hopses of Kentucky.—The Gold Dus^ Horses, whichwere originated by breeding from Morgan stallions on good thorough-bred niaros, and carefully selecting for generations, make admirable lightfarm horses. High-strung, elegant, fast-going, staunch, and able forall light work on the fann, either for the saddle or harness, as lightdriving buggy horses in single harness, or for the light caiTiage iudoubleharness, they are most excellent animals. m. The Clydesdale Horse. Another class of horses that may be made profitable on the bree