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Australia, and New Zealand they are largely engaged in 

 agricultural operations. They have been exported to South 

 Africa and largely into the Argentine. Everywhere they 

 prove themselves the farmer's friend, and their world-wide 

 reputation has been honestly earned. 



The Clydesdale Horse Society was founded in 1877. The 

 best height is fixed at 16.2 to 17 hands. In colour they 

 should be dark brown with dappling, or black. Mares may 

 be grey, but not stallions. White on the legs is admissible, 

 with plenty of silky feather from the very hocks, and knees, 

 while " Ratch " on the face is held to be a sign of purity 

 of blood. 



Suffolk Punch. 



A breed with an extraordinary reputation in its own 

 district, always admired whenever seen, is the Suffolk 

 Punch, with its beautiful, shining chestnut coat. It is an 

 excellent walker, with a smart, quick step, and can trot 

 in a railway van, moving well up to seven or eight miles 

 an hour. It is one of our oldest established breeds, and that 

 great authority on the agriculture of his day, Arthur Young, 

 speaks of it as " an old breed," and he himself was born in 

 1741. Since that time they have been continually improved 

 in general form, ungainly or weak points have l)een bred out, 

 and soundness of wind and limb have been established ; 

 but their chief attribute, and most valuable distinction, 

 gameness in the collar, was as fully developed then as it 

 is now, even if it still exists in its former pre-eminence. 

 The test of the sand-bag was peculiar to Suffolk and was 

 a great test of merit in the old breed, whatever might be 

 thought now of the hardship inflicted on the willing 

 teams. 



Sir Thomas Gery CuUum, in a note to the second edition 

 of his brother's work, "The History and Antiquities of 

 Flamstead and Hardwick, in the County of Suffolk," by 

 the Eev. Sir John Cullum, Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A., explains 

 the conditions of the test : — 



" The trial is made with a waggon loaded with sand, the 



