Excerpt from Farm Animals: Horses, Cows, Sheep, Swine, Goats, Poultry, Etc Horses are required on the farm for saddle purposes, driving and ordinary farm work although on more extensive farms with various lines of industry there may be required some more detailed classifications of their usefulness. Horses are not raised exclusively for farm work, however, and farmers who wish to breed horses for sale must first acquaint themselves with the require ments of the market along this line. In general two t pes of horses are recognized on the market, name y the draft and light types. These two types are essentially different from each other. The draft horse is heavy of body and the length of the body is relatively much shorter than in the light type. The only use of the draft horse is to haul loads of greater or less weight, usually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.