Show SIZE OF HORSE farmer wants animal to draw plow and buggy team well built with snap and spirit Is huge drafters j are better adapted to city manufacturing concern by J M BELL neither the massive drafter nor the diminutive pony are what the average farmer needs being an average man be wants a medium sized horse one that will do farm and road work corn bened one that will draw a plow barrow or wagon and possibly a carriage or buggy tor the average farmer these da s goes to church pays some social visit and likewise goes to the country town courthouse or post office pretty regularly an 1800 or 2 pound drafter won t fill the bill for these varied re neither will a or pound scrub the average farmer wants something betwixt and between as the Is I 1 should say from 1 to 1400 pounds a team well built with borne snap and spirit one that the owner or the hired man will hold the reins over with a feeling of pride and pleasure let the large manufacturing concerns in the city use the huge drafters I 1 knew a team of 1100 pound horses some years ago one man drove them consecutively tor nine years hauling cord wood in the summer and fall months both of these horses were by sires who had a liberal strain of thoroughbred blood in their veins they did farm work regularly until corn was laid by then they were put to hauling on the road they were true and stanch draft horses good type horse for farm work were never known to get stalled but once in nine years and they were never driven with a whip at twenty five years of age each they were sound and were full of life think of it twenty one years of hard regular service and still able to earn their feed they were of the weight size and breeding and besides had been well taken care of all their lives I 1 know a young farmer this year who is starting out and who bought two heavy awkward drafters and also a 1000 pound mare of good breeding he worked the mare in the team with the two big fellows and whenever he had occasion to take a trip in bis buggy always drove the mare letting the others rest and still she held her own and kept in good order too much has been written and said advising the average farmer to use heavy drafters let him sell them at big prices and use a more medium sized horse on the farm one years experience will show him that he is right |