farm-horse

The farm-horse will not do this; but he is quite obedient to call, and distinguishes his name readily from that of his companion, and will not stir when desired to stand until _his own name_ is pronounced.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

He extended his breeding experiments to horses, producing a new and particularly useful type of farm-horse.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

His father's farm-horse, or perhaps that of one of the neighbors, had served his turn for the first six or seven miles; his little brother of ten years old having followed him as far as

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

III.p. 98, a farm-horse makes about 12 tons of manure in a year.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

The large bay farm-horse, slow and grave in his demeanor, wore his plain harness with an air which made him seem, among his fellow-horses, the counterpart of his master among men.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

I was consulted in the early part of last summer, before the dry weather had begun, as to a farm-horse with canker in three feet.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

On the occasion of our flight south, nothing on the whole journey happened to give us any concern, save at Pithiviers, where a market-wagon with a staid old farm-horse -- who did not mean any harm -- charged us and lifted off the right mud-guard, necessitating an hour's work or more at the blacksmith's to straighten it out again.

The Automobilist Abroad

Roosevelt's discomfiture, the horse that had given him so much trouble started off as meekly as any farm-horse.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

The next morning early, before the dew was off the young grass, Stephen Wheaton started with the wagon-load, driving the great gray farm-horse up the side of Silver Mountain.

The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910

When the wagon returned he ran out and hung on behind, while the strong, ungainly farm-horse galloped to the house set high on the sun-baked terraces.

The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories 1910