LIGHT HARNESS HORSES.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3782, 2 December 1898, Page 2

LIGHT HARNESS HORSES.

In a paper read before the Wisconsin Farmers Institute, Prof. John A. Craig discussed light horses as follows : —The ohief characteristics of the roadsters are speed and stamina. The ability to trot fast is a leading characteristic of the roadster, and the ability to maintain a rapid gait 13 clearly essential in a horse of any kind, in addition to being aWe to stand steady road work. The typical roadster may be said to be about 15^ hands high and about 10001 bin weight; the ! formation is narrow in front, deep I ohested, wide at the loin, and very muscular in the quarters, Every feature about the horse appears clear cut, giving a hard finish which indicates durability. The lineaments of the face and the outlines of the neck, and especially the distinctness with which the tendons stand away from the leg, are very characteristic features. The type lacks the fullness and symmetry that are characteristic in the carriage or coach horse. To do effective and satisfactory road work is the sphere of the roadster, and a type that has been evolved is an illustration of the evolution of a form for a specific purpose.

Home-flesh, ass-flesh, and muleflesh are now eaten in such large quantities in France that the regulau butchers who deal in beef and mutton are getting uneasy. In the dingy restruants frefiaented by the lower orJers of Rome, Florence, md Naples they go one better. There a dish composed of the harmless wood eerpent's flesh is regarded as something of a dainty.

Capf. Edwin predicts gale with Afain from east.