Draft Horses and Mules


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Draft Horses and Mules, by Gail Damerow and Alina Rice, distills the great tradition of these impressive animals into a definitive guide. Designed for new or intermediate owners, the book shows readers how to choose an ideal team, feed and house them, maintain their health, ensure effective equine-human communication, select and use equipment properly, and employ the animals in a variety of agricultural, logging, and demonstration tasks.




Work Horse Handbook


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Small Farmer's Journal is after a new view of involvement, ownership, craftsmanship, and the understandable/mysterious seeds of magic. They also seek the craft of good farming and the faith that comes of thankful farming. Small Farmer's Journal wants to be defenders and agents of and for good farming and they realize that they are a small endeavor with small consequences. Work Horse Handbook has become a classic and the standard reference. This popular, highly regarded text is filled with current information and hundreds of photographs and drawings. It is a sensitive and intelligent examination of the craft of the teamster. From care and feeding through hitching and driving, every aspect is covered. Find out for yourself why this book is considered by thousands of people to be the volume on working horses in harness.




Wonders of Draft Horses


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Traces the role of the draft horse throughout history and describes the characteristics of some of the most popular breeds including the Belgian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire, and Suffolk.




Draft Horses Today


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The Carriage Journal


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Cover picture. Metropolitan Club Courtyard The Passing Scene Louis de Turenne Leonard Jerome's Park Drag Fairview Farm Coaching At The Metropolitan Club The Education of The Driving Horse. Gruber Wagon Works (Celegrates its IOOth Anniversary Letters to the Editor Single Harness Carriage Restoration: (The Black Parts of Carriages) ... The Fifth Wheel of American Carriages . Book Reviews . Calendar of Events . Advertisements . The Trading Post