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THE HORSE 



know from observation and experience that all deep-bellied horses carry 

 their food long, and consequently are able to stand a longer and harder 

 day's work." This variety is now quite extinct ; the improved Suffolk is 

 lighter and quicker than the old breed, Avith a low, powerful shoulder, and 

 very drooping croup. The legs also are very clean and wiry. A good 

 example will be found in the engraving. 



The Suffolk now shares with the Clydesdale pretty equally the approba- 

 tion of the farmers throughout Great Britain, the former being generally 



From a photograph by Pratt and Son. 



CHAMPION SUFFOLK STALLION, 'HIS GRACE.' 



preferred in the south, and the latter in the north. Admirers of the 

 Suffolk maintain that no other horse is so hardy, and that he will do 

 more woi'k in the same time, and on the same amount of food, than any 

 other. The testing of such a matter is not so simple as it may appear, for 

 it would be necessary to try the experiment with a number of horses of 

 each kind, and carry it on for months together. A less severe and 

 complete trial would be of little use, and could not by any means be con- 

 sidered as definitive, nor would it be so even conducted as I have said it 

 ought to be unless it was under the actual superintendence of unprejudiced 

 observers. 



