PULL OF DRAUGHT HORSES.
There can now be no doubt that weight is an important factor in the production of a horse that can pull a heavy load. This has long been recognised, where for ninny years draught horses, pure-breds and commercial, have been sold by weight: anl it'has recently been definitely proved by the lowa dynamometer, a machine for measuring the pulling power of a horse. It. has been abundantly shown that a pair of horsss cannot exert a tractive pull greater than -ts own weight. A tractive pull is not merely the pulling of a heavy load a required distance, but the maintenance of the pull required to start that load over a distance which is now fixed at 271 ft. Thus, the weight of a horse is undoubtedlv a limiting factor to what it can accomplish. Moreover, the fact that, a horse can make a tractive pull of nine-tenths its own weight is significant, nnd these two points, taken together, show that breeding for weight in horses is no mere fad or "fancy point. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 16
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177PULL OF DRAUGHT HORSES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19143, 8 October 1925, Page 16
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