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Show Weight Great Factor ... f. in Horses for Draft There can be no doubt that weight Is an important factor In the. production produc-tion .ofn horse that, can pull a heavy load. This has long been recognized in America, where for many years draft horses, pure bred .and commer-' commer-' cinl, have been sold by weight; and it has recently been definitely proved by the dynamometer n machine for measuring meas-uring the pulling power of a horse., It has been abundantly shown that n pair tof horses cannot exert a" tractive trac-tive pull greater than their 'own weight." A tractive pull Is not merely the pulling pull-ing of a heavy load, over a required . distance, but the maintenance of the pull required to start that load over a distance which is now fixed at 27V& feet.' ''.''". Thus the weight of a horse Is undoubtedly un-doubtedly a limiting factor to what It can accomplish. Moreover, the fact that a horse can make a tractive pull of nine-tenths of Its own weight Is significant ; and these two points, taken together, show that breeding for weight in horses is no mere fad or "funcy point." |