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THE SUFFOLK PUNCH. 



THE British draft Horses, that are to be consi- 

 dered as truly serviceable, are the Suffolk Punches. 

 They are, in general, of a chesnut colour, in stature 

 somewhat low, and are rather coarse headed. Their 

 carcasses are large and deep, and they are altoge- 

 ther strong, firm, and well-compacted animals, 

 capable of great bodily exertion, and long perse- 

 verance. Although their motions are, in general, 

 slow, they prove highly useful, both for the cart 

 and plough. At drawing dead pulls they are. 

 superior to most, if not to all others; but this 

 is, in a great measure, owing to early training. It 

 is well known that a team of Suffolk Horses, on a 

 signal being given, will, in the carters' phrase, "all 

 down upon their knees," and leave nothing behind 

 them that it is in the power of flesh and blood to 

 draw away. In the Annals of Agriculture there is an 

 account of five of these Horses, belonging to Mr. 

 Collett, which drew thirty sacks of barley, over the 

 sandy road from Walton to Ipswich ; and of a 

 single Horse belonging to Mr. Constable, of East 

 Berghott, which was known to draw, in a cart, ten 

 sacks of flour, each weighing twenty stone and a 

 half, for five or six miles, on a heavy road *. 



* Anderson's Recreations in Agriculture, &c. and Lawrence on 

 Horses. 



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