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in the region where the Morgans originated. Unless experience has 

 already demonstrated their inutility, we could recommend to our horse- 

 breeders some well-considered experiments, limited at first, to test the 

 feasibility of engrafting the Morgan characteristics on a lar2;er horse." 

 The Cleveland Bay. — This horse is thus described by Mr.^Youatt : 

 " The produce of Cleveland mares is a coach-horse of high repute, 

 and likely to possess good action. His points are, substance well placed, 

 deep and w^ell-proportioned body, strong and clean bone under the 

 knee, open, sound, aud tough feet, with fine knee action, lifting his feet 

 high. The full-sized coach-horse is in fact an overgrown hunter. 



" The old Cleveland horse is almost extinct, and his place supplied in 

 the manner just described. The Sufl!"olk Punch, the product chiefly of 

 Sufiblk and some of the neighbouring districts, is regenerated, but is a 

 different sort of animal to the breed of olden times. He usually varied 

 from fifteen to sixteen hands in height, and was of a sorrel color. He 

 was large-headed, low-shouldered, broad and low on the withers, deep, 

 and yet round-chested ; long in the back, large and strong in the quar- 

 ters, round in the legs, and strong in the pasterns. He would throw his 

 whole weight into the collar, and had sufficient hardihood and streno-th 

 to stand a long day's work. The pure breed has, however, passed awav, 

 and is succeeded by a cross between the half or three-parts bred York- 

 shire with the old Suffolk. He is taller than the former horse, some- 

 what higher and firmer about the shoulders, with sufficient quickness of 

 action and honesty to exert himself to the utmost at a dead pull, whilst 

 the proportion of the withers enables him to throw immense w^eight 

 into the collar. The encouragement given by the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England for horses of this class has been the cause of con- 

 siderable increase in their numbers." 



Cleveland Bays have been introduced into this country, and have 

 spread considerably. They are very large horses ; and, for their size, 

 are symmetrical in form, and fair in action. The cross with our com- 

 mon mares produces an excellent farm horse, though said to be of 

 sullen temper. 



The Dray-Horse. — Of the heavy black dray-horses, but few have been 

 imported into this country, and they do not seem likely to become 

 favorites here. Mr. Youatt says of them : 



" The heavy black horse is the last variety it may be necessary to 

 notice. It is bred chiefly in the midland counties, from Lincolnshire 

 to Staffordshire. Many are bought up by the Surrey and Berkshire 

 farmers at two years old, — and being worked moderately until they are 

 four, earning their keep all the while, they are then sent to the London 

 market, and sold at a profit of ten or twelve per cent. 



It would not answer the breeder'' s purpose to keep them until they 

 are fit for town work. He has plenty of fillies and mares on his farm 

 for every purpose that he can require; he therefore sells them to a 

 person nearer the metropolis, by whom they are gradually trained and 

 prepared. The traveler has probably wondered to see four of these 

 enormous animals in a line before a plow, on no very lieavy soil, 

 and where two lighter horses would have been quite sufficient. The 

 farmer is training them for their future destiny ; and he does right in 



