Show What a Horse can Do A horse will wi travel yards in four and minutes at a walk yards in iii two minutes at i t 1 trot yards in ill one minute at a The Te usual work of a n horse borse is it taken at pounds raised one foot loot per minute for eight hours per day A horse will wi carry 2 0 pounds twenty twenty- five mie miles per day of eight hours hous An average draught horse will wi draw 1 pounds twenty three miles mies p pr r day on a level road weight included d. d The average eight of a horse is 1000 pounds and his strength bis is equivalent to that of five men The Tho greatest amount a a horse can citi pull pun in a OO pounds but he ho can only do this momentarily in continued exertion probably half of this is the tue limit He le attains his growth in in five years wi lve twenty twenty- five live five average e sixteen years A horse will vill hye twenty five days on water without solid Iohd food seventeen days days' rays rays' without eating or drinking but only ing ing- five days on solid sold food without drinking drink drink- 5 |