THE BREEDS OF HORSES 41 



these horses are in Illinois and Iowa than in any of the other 

 states. In 1910 a Shire stallion named Dan Patch sold 

 at Chicago for $10,000. 



The Belgian horse comes from one of the smallest coun- 

 tries in Europe. Belgium has done much to improve the 



Fig. 18. Ilosco V (12554), a yearling Shire horse, owned by Illinois University. 

 Photograph by courtesy Prof. J. L. Edmonds. 



draft horse, and the Government has paid out large sums of 

 money to develop the breed. The people take much interest in 

 the work, and the draft horse shows of this breed alone at 

 Brussels are among the very greatest exhibitions in Europe. 

 Draft horses have been bred in Belgium a very long time, but 



