Durability of a Horse

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 February 1914, Page 4

Durability of a Horse

A horse will travel 400 yards in four and a-half minutes at a walk, 400 yards in two minutes at a trot, and 400 yards in one minute at a gallop. The usual work of a horse is taken at 22, 5001b raised one foot per minute for eight hours per day. A horse will carry 2501b 'zb miles per day for eight hours. An average draught horse will draw IbOO lb 23 miles per day on a level road, weight of waggon included. The average weight of a horse is 1000 lb ; his strength is equal to that of fi?e men. In a horse mill moving at three feet per second rack, diameter, he exeits with the machine the power of four and a-half horses. The greatest amount a horse can pull in a horizontal line is 9001b but he can only do this momentarily ; in continued exertion probable half of this is the limit. He attains his grow thin live years, will live 25 years, average 16 years. A horst will live 25 days without solid food, 17 days without eating or drinking, but only five days on solid food without drinking.