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happily gone out of fashion The Morgans, or rather their crosses, 

 when bred up to the weight last mentioned, make admirable horses oi 

 this claGS. 



The Gold Dust Hopses of Kentucky.— The Gold Dus^ Horses, which 

 were originated by breeding from Morgan stallions on good thorough - 

 bred niaros, and carefully selecting for generations, make admirable light 

 farm horses. High-strung, elegant, fast-going, staunch, and able for 

 all light work on the fann, either for the saddle or harness, as light 

 driving buggy horses in single harness, or for the light caiTiage iu double 

 harness, they are most excellent animals. 



m. The Clydesdale Horse. 



Another class of horses that may be made profitable on the breeding 

 farm are what are known as draft horses proper. In the United SUites, 

 the best representatives of this class are the Clydesdales and the Norman- 

 Percherons. The Clydesdales are an English-Scotch breed of great 

 power, bone and substance, and are capable of drawing immense loads. 

 In Canada there are many excellent representatives of this breed, and 

 in the West they are attractmg more and more attention every 3'ear. 

 The West of Scotland has long been famous for its excellent draft hor- 

 ses. Their origin is probably due m part to the blood of Flemish mares, 

 thouirh but little is authentically kno^vn of their ancestry. Whatever 

 their origin maybe, it is certain that they have made Scotland famous for 

 its draft-horse stock, and much of the excellence of the draft horses cf 

 the North of England, where the Clydesdale originated, is due to an infu- 

 sion of this Scottish blood. In England these heavy horses are useful to 

 farmers in working their tough clay soils. In the United States, especi- 

 ally in the AVest and South, the alluvial nature of the soil does not re- 

 quire such strength of team in plowing ; l)ut the vast amount of hauliiif 

 to be done in and near cities, where the railroad and steamer traffic of the 

 country centres, will always cause a demand for large, ablc-l)odied draft 

 horses. 



The Shire horse seems to have taken the place of the Suffolk horse in 

 England, so we have seen them in the United States. They are a larger 

 horse than the Clydesdale, more upstanding with, perhaps, better hoofs. 

 The hairy lower limbs, like the Clydesdale, is against them, in the eyes cf 

 the American farmer. Like the Clydesdale, they are magnificent draft 

 animals, strong, true and honest, but we do not think they stand hard city 

 pavements much better than the Clydes. The back and body is more 

 eymmetrical, in our view, than that of the Clyde. Like the Clyde, their 



