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Show PROFITABLE ANIMAI&"" WHICH 13 THE BEST COACH HORSE rOR THE BREEDER? Be Pays Hlg Money and lie ' Takes His Choice Illustrations of the Two Coach Families liow Most Fashionable Fashion-able French and English Horses. Which is the best breed of coach horse? After the American tourist in Europe has traveled through the principal cities there and watched the carriage parades of the rich in the parks if he comes to Paris last he looks at the equi- , CLEVELAND BAY 31 ABE AXD FOAL. pages in the Champs Elysee and exclaims with surprise and admiration: "The most beautiful horses in the world are in Paris!" Many of the French carriage horses are Cleveland bays, imported from Yorkshire York-shire and the coach horse breeding districts dis-tricts of England. Btii apart from these the French coach horse is a dis- uuci ureeu wnose nno points appear at first sight. Both the Cleveland bay and the French coach horse are now bred to a considerable consider-able extent in this country, and both have their ardent admirers, who would have no other kind under an considera tion. We lay before our readers this week pictures of both these admirable types of the carriage horse. The first illustration represents a Cleveland bay and her colfc, taken while in rapid motion. Field and Farm says: "The breeding of coach horses in this country is receiving much attention, and is proving very remunerative for a cer tain class of farmers. There are several breeds of horses well fitted for this purpose, pur-pose, but none fully equal to the Cleveland Cleve-land bay. They are powerful, active and good looking, of a beautiful bay color, with dark points, always trans-mi trans-mi tting their color with unerring certainty. cer-tainty. They not only make superb coach horses, but for light draft and road work they are excellent, anl although al-though we do not believe in the "r. n-eral n-eral purpose" horr,e they "fill the eye" of Euch fanners ar. do advocate sueb.au animal, an-imal, and this class of farmers look upon them with great favor. "The main characteristics of the Cleveland Cleve-land bay are its adaptability to almost all kinds of work, wonderful uniformity of size and color, good disposition, great sndyrrasga,, bol.L fcw action -met Tine styie, making it a very dcriraK-.- animal breed to for getting either a line carriage car-riage or general purpose horse. They simld stand at maturity from sixteen Ivtnrla tr cirtpim l'Tirlj 4,. n.l .. i.n I ,..i.kvuu,.iiiu nu cl'MU tl UUll iri'.-heo high, and weigh from 1,200 ponnda to 1,4.10 pounds, have good .sloping" shoulders, shoul-ders, short backs, powerful loin3 and FRE.NCH COACH HORSE. long quarters, head well set on long, arched neck, and carried in a style not teen in any other breed. He has good Action, and in some instances considerable consider-able speed." The handsome Cleveland bay mare in the illustration above belongs in Colorado, Colo-rado, The superb French coaching stal-Hol stal-Hol of our . second illustration, on the other hand, is owned in the east, in MitSKarlinKtt-s The origin of the French coach hcrse can be traced back to a strain of Arabian blood. The leading features of the breed can bo readily seen in the picture. A writer in Tho American Cultivator says: The French coach horse is a large sized, compactly formed, round barreled, oblique ob-lique shouldered animal, with a strong back, powerful loin, smooth coupling roundly turned hips, strong quarters, clean hocks, smooth, clean limbs, short, strong pasterns and good feet. As a rule they are remarkably intelligent and docile. They are upheaded, free, spirited spirit-ed drivers and capital roadsters, being able- to pull two men in a heavy buggy from eight to ten miles an hour with case. They aro also fast walkers. Those acquainted with both pronounce the French coach horse very similar in character char-acter to the old fashioned Morgan, the chief difference being a large increase in 6ize. Cracked Hoofs In Oxen. In answer to a request for something to prevent cracked hoofs The Dakota Farmer says: An ointment composed of equal parts of pine tar, fish oil and beef brine heated gently together and well stirred until cold will often prevent the hoofs of animals ani-mals frcm cracking if applied daily with Binart friction. Voo might have your oxen shod, the lo'. : hvof cut away and the interstices stuG d with tar and tow, while a judicious v.:;e of leather with the shoe will be found 1 : netk-ial. Keep the parts clean, and f:l;on!d -tnttelfTameness be present poultice with bran for a day or two before applying the shoes. Vvhcii scurf or encrustations appear 011 v.-x back of cattle, as they sometimes do. !:u.l .the hair drops out, paint tha spot every other day with tincture of iodiue. To prevent the spot from be-couiiii be-couiiii g too sore rub it occasionally with vaseliue on the off days. Ensiiiili Street Railway locomotives. Stoam locomotives" are quite extensively used in England for city and suburban tramways, tram-ways, or street railways. The Green patent engine, which is in use on fif tedu lines, has a boiler of the loconiotiya typo, and is carried on four wheels. The valve gear is of the or, di.iavy typo- The engine is boxed , and a casing, extending to within a few inches of the ground, covers the. wheels ami running gear. It is fitted with steam and haud brakes, ftd an, automatic brake which comes into operation when the speed exceeds thelimi allowed by the board of trade regulations. On the roof is , surface condenser composed o largo brass boxes fitted with about 300 i copper tubes; the condensed steam flows to j tho feed tank, and is, while still hot, pumped 1 back into the boiler. Enj:ineerii?2 Newi. ' 1 V |