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and clean, well-shaped hocks, should be 

 looked for when buying a horse of this 

 variety. 



Freedom from such diseases as side-bone, 

 contracted heel, sandcrack, flatness of the 

 feet, ring-bone, spavin, thickened sinews, 

 etc., are necessary ; though, provided the 

 animal be of the age indicated, and sound 

 at the trot, a bone-spavin may not be 

 detrimental to utility. 



What has been said with reference to the 

 feet of the Shire is equally applicable to 

 the Clydesdale, and the same regarding the 

 diseases to be specially looked for when 

 choosing. 



The Suffolk Horse. 



For the general work of a farm, it would 

 indeed be difficult to find a more suitable 



