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Tests made recently proved thai ft pair of horses, each weighing 16001b, could haul a load 5501b greater than themselves. On a metal track, one ot these animals, it- has been shown, can draw one and-two-third times-as mucli as on a good asphalt surface. For the usual type of farm horse, a. eart cejrymg a weight of 15001b is considered to- in? a fair task. While pulling light vehicles and under saddle, records indicate that horses are. equal to great feats' of strength and endurance. A twenty-year-old horso h?rneesed to ; light, cart is known to have travollc-: a hundred miles in less than thirteen and'a half hours.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18151, 14 August 1924, Page 7
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