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Show FARM HORSE AND DRAFT HORSE. A imi.aetlon That rartuer and llreedaro Should lUiueuiber. Tho farm hone needs a piutern of different dif-ferent shapA from that of the draft horse proper, Tho rvwtcrn has an 1 in porta ut cftlco to porform. Tho bonus sorrs to throw tho ten Ion of tho foot which run over tberu farther front tio center of motion, and more than this, act as springs to prorcut concuMlon sud absorb motion which with unusually short and straight juutems it ivMrtod on to tho upper portions por-tions of tho limbs and shoulders. Uvitce tho twuy, pringy, clattlo raotluo depcndi moatly upon tho length and obliquonvM of ths pastern. The dray horso needs little of this sort of motion, lie Is uot required to go faster than a walk, and short, itronjr. pastern are preferred to long springy ones. Hut wo must think ometUinif of tho horses kept on tho farm Formers aro beginning to study this matter, which tn the pat has boon greatly ncgloctod. Wo havo reached a point wbero wo nro forcod to study It, for upon tho pa tern depend to a great eitont tho wearing qualltioiof tho farm or horse. Tor instance, tho othor day I happened hap-pened to bo driving a team of grai draft mares to tho buggy, Ono row had tn o Crowes of imported draft Mood tu her veins, tho othor but ono. As ther trotted along it was very cxny to see which had the greater amount of draft Mood simply by oUerrlug tho ton of tho collar, Ihefeetof tho "threo fourths" inare struck tho ground with a thud much after tho stylo of a pilo driver nud hor puturns being short and upright up-right tho shock was commoulcatod to tho entiro front quarters, causing the collar to jolt np and down on hcrnocL with ovcry step, Tho other mare, an aunt of tho first ono, trotted along with scarcely a jar, and tho motion of llw collar consisted entirely iu accommodating accommo-dating iUelf to tho shifting position of tho luoutders, thero was no up and down motion of tho collar whatover ThU maro's p.utcrns woro longer and tnoro sloping, nnd performed their dot) of rolloving Uio upper limbs und shout ders from tho concussion naturally caused by tho feet striking the ground. Tho one rcaro went with a "chug-uty-chug" np and down motion, tho other amoothly, easily ami horizontally Tho lint waro will pull more, and probably wear a wot as well as tho other nudcr tho conditions which surround the dray hone, but she would not hut at ull un der tho condition which obtain on tho western farm, tiuch a mare should ne.cr bo driven fatter than a walk and tho time la not jet when the western farmer can atlord to letp work mart which cannot trot without in J uri ug thtmselvos. Henry G. Wallace la Ure-J er'oGazitte, lrle Aberdeen Auffu. Tho illnstratiou rhowa a magnificent specimen of ono of tho hornlo&a Uvt" brvela that aro replacing tho 'lexaistuor AQUtbcKX Aous lirjun. of the old timo In tlio w ett. If tho ciWl Izcd cnttlocau keepupthehardlneMund cnpicit) for taking euro of tbeitiHetvca that tho IVxaa breed showed theu Amur-lea Amur-lea will In ut the wurld at tho bvif tnni lie and that siwodil) Tho prize heifer lu tho picture weighed 1,770 pound when iho was S cara U , moat hi au i 4 wtttks old. |