ENGLISH SHIRES 



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English Shire 



Another big draft breed, perhaps the biggest of them all from 

 the black war horse of the middle ages, has until recently been 

 known as the English Cart Horse. He was quite fully described 

 by Low three quarters of a century ago. The blood of his native 



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SHIRE STALLION, BURY VICTOR CHIEF 



ancestry was liberally supplemented by that of Flanders and breeds 

 of the adjacent mainland. There is evidence that the Romans 

 prior to A. D. 400 prized a heavy breed of British horses. King 

 John, 1 299- 1316, imported one hundred Flanders stallions. Ed- 

 ward II was a patron and improver of the breed. Henry VIII 



" Farmers claim your Gall Cure will cure any case of galled skin or shoul- 

 der without stopping the animal from wor^. 



3). W. Hays, Gordonville, 



