428 FARM HORSES SUFFOLK PUNCHES 



Association. Comparatively a limited number have recently 

 appeared at the Royal Agricultural Society's annual show. 

 For all purposes of British agriculture, the Suffolk horse, 

 smart between the shafts in harness, quick at the ends on the 

 plough, a fast walker in the harrows after the drill, and a 

 staunch slave at the collar, be it flour, timber, or chalk behind 

 him, is unsurpassed by any breed of horses. During the first 

 twenty-three years of the Royal Agricultural Society's 

 existence, while the prize was offered for the best horse for 

 agricultural purposes of any breed, fourteen went to Suffolk 

 horses, and the remaining nine to all other breeds." 



The modern Suffolk has a body that looks heavy for the 

 limbs, which are clean and fine, with little long hair. He is a 

 long stepping, active walker, but he does not lift so high in 

 trotting as a Clydesdale or one of the better types of Shire 

 horses, and he seems to twist his legs more when moving. 

 " But from the time he is two years old till he is twenty-four, 

 on every soil, at any work, he can hold his own against all 

 comers. In shunting railway trucks, at the heaviest work 

 in the Liverpool Docks, he may be out of place ; but for the 

 London delivery van, the miller's flour waggon, or anything 

 requiring power and a quick start, the breeder of Suffolks 

 has little to fear from competition. The Great Eastern 

 Railway Company drove a pair of pure Suffolks for eight 

 years in one of their parcel vans in Ipswich." 



G. M. Sexton, on cart-horses, says : " The Suffolk is 

 suited admirably to the light land district, where he is bred 

 to perfection, and has no superior for the work he is able 

 to perform. He is endowed with a marvellous constitution, 

 which enables him to do an eight hours' journey at plough 

 and return to his stable looking little the worse for it. He 

 is remarkable, too, for carrying his years well, frequently 

 living and working for upwards of twenty years on the same 

 farm, and at fifteen or sixteen years he looks in the prime 

 of life." 



The London Cart-horse Parade Society held in Regent's 

 Park on Whit-Monday 1906 its twenty-first parade, with the 

 objects of improving the " general condition and treatment of 

 cart-horses" within the metropolitan postal area; encouraging 

 the humane treatment of the animals, and the use of powerful 

 horses suitable for street work. The numbers entered now 



