Show UNIT OF HORSE POWER pomer answer to queries from several readers of the he agriculturist the average power of a horse harse Is reckoned as equivalent to the raising of one oile foe ler yer minute and this is the unit of measure in irk estimating sti mating the power of steam engines ac A lorse walking at the rate i f four miles all an hour lour travels feet per minute goi gol g at his hla rate he would only have to pull on a rope ropa sufficient clent cieni to draw up a weight eight A of 91 purlus pounds nea ly to exert the same power as would te be required to raise one foot ill in a full fuli f till minute it if tra traveling eling only three miles an hour the constant weight to lift ifo ift would be 1201 pounds if traveling ten mi es an hour the average draught would be about 36 sut aj pounds by byre re c nt enactment the austrian Aust flan fian govern government menthia has fired the tiia legal legai horse horbe power fr that empire at pounds or nearly pounds raised one foot per minute |