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casses and their sleek coats, and the evident pride which they take 

 in themselves, but they eat a great deal of hay and corn, and at 

 hard, long-continued work, they would be completely beaten by 

 a team of active, muscular horses, an inch and a half lower." 

 The same might truly be said of all the enormous draft-horses 

 which American farmers are just now getting on a craze for. 



Points of English Dray-horse. These ponderous 

 black horses, or English dray or brewer's horse as often called, 

 have a symmetrical form ; head short and heavy, eyes mild- 

 looking and small, ears broad, thick and short, neck strong and 

 arched, breast broad and thick, shoulders upright and heavy, 

 barrel round and deep, loins broad and high, quarters ample, 

 forearms and thighs thick, legs short, hoofs round and broad at 

 the heels, soles not too flat. By crossing with the Flanders 

 horse of late, Youatt says the forehand has been raised, the legs 

 have been flattened and deepened, and very much has been 

 gained in activity. The heavy black, with his gait of two and 

 a half miles per hour, has been lightened, and can step off four 

 miles in the same time and endure longer. 



The Scotch Draft-horse. The Clydesdale is the pride 

 of the Scotch farmer. Bonnie Scotland has found in the 

 type of powerful horses bred on the Clyde her ideal of a use- 

 ful horse. 



The Clydesdale owes its origin, says Youatt, to one of the 

 dukes of Hamilton, who crossed some of the best Lanark mares 

 with stallions from Flanders. The Clyde is larger than the 

 Suffolk Punch, or English horses generally, has a better head, 

 longer neck, lighter carcass, deeper legs. He is strong, 

 hardy, true, and rarely restive. They are sold from the valley 

 of the Clyde, for coach, draft, and farm uses into even southern 

 counties of England, and recently the importation of them to 

 Canada and the United States has become large and is rapidly 

 increasing. They are the "rapid draft" horses of the British 

 Isles. " The long stride," says Low, " characteristic of this 

 breed, is partly the result of conformation, and partly of habit 

 and training; but however produced, it adds greatly to the use- 

 fulness of the horse, both on the road and in the fields, no 



