Show FARM HORSE AND DRAFT HORSE A 1 distinction Var titers nal and It reeders tho the farm horse needs ii PL pastern Stern of different shape froni from that of tile the draft home bome proper tho the pastern tern lia lias nn an important office to perform the bones serve to throw the tendon of the foot which runs runa over them farther from froin the center ot of motion and morn than this net ais to prevent concussion und and absorb which with unusually short anil and straight patterns is passed on to tho the tipper portions of tho the limbs and shoulders ifelice hence the easy springy elastic eli motion depends mostly upon the length and oblique obliqueness neA of the pastern the dray lire needs little of this sort of motion lie ile is nut not required to go faster than a walk anil and short strong pasterns pj pa sterns are pre ferre to long springy ones hut but we must something of the horses horse kept on till the f farms a ruis farmers are ber inning to study this matter which in the past has been greatly neglected we have readied reached it 11 point where we are forced to baudy it 11 for upon the pastern depends to 1 a I great el extent tent the wearing qualities of tho the farill er ers s horse home por for instance tho the other day I 1 nap hap pencil to tie lie driving a team or of grade draft mares to the bug buggy agy g ono binin hid hall two crosses of imported draft blood in tier her vein the other but one As they trotted along I 1 it was very easy to see which hall had the greater amount of dratt draft blood simply by observing tho the top of collar the feet of the three fourths mare struck the ground with a thud much aftin the style of a pile drahei and her pasterns pa sterns being short and upright the shock was communicated to the entire front quarters causing thi the collar to jolt olt up and down donval on her with every step the other mure in ire an all aurit aunt of the first one trotted along with scarcely a jar ar and the motion of the collir collar consisted entirely in accommodating acco unno itself to the shifting posit positions ioni ot of th the 0 shoulders there was no up and down motion of the collar whatever this mares pasterns pa sterns were longer all ami 1 mole moie sloping and performed their duty ditty of relieving the upper tipper limbs noil atoll ders from the concussion illy caused by the feet striking sinking the ground the one mire mare went with a ahny ety chug up kind ami down motion the other othe smoothly easily and ami horizontally bonzon the firt first mare will pull more aind probably pro bibly wear about a us well as tho the other andel tile tho conditions which surround tho the dray horse but site she would not last at all un on der tile conditions which obtain on the western farm such auch at a mare should never bo be driven faster than a walk ind and the time is not yet when the it farmer can atford afford to keep work inar marex which cannot trot without injuring themselves glenry C wallace in breed ers gazette |