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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



HuxTER " Tom Brown " 



Has taken many prizes 



Photo J. T. Newman. Berkhampstead 



Derbyshire, Staffordshire, — hence 

 his name. The race is distinguished 

 by its ponderous conformation, its 

 fine shape, and especially by the 

 thick hair at the back of the leg, 

 descending in long locks about the 

 fetlock. By his extraordinary 

 strength, his gigantic height, and 

 his excellent qualities as a draft 

 animal, the Shire horse has given 

 birth to several celebrated strains 

 of brewery, truck, and cart horses 

 in England and America. They are 

 usually black, gray, or bay in color. 



The Suffolk horse, commonly 

 known as the Suffolk Punch, is 

 indigenous from ancient times 

 in the county of that name. 

 He is equally heavy and stout, 

 and excels as much by his ex- 

 traordinary strength as by the 

 docility with which he lends 

 himself to toilsome work, espe- 

 cially that of agriculture. 



The Clydesdale horses are Stallion 

 cool-blooded, and take their Took 



name from the valley of the Clyde in Scotland. 

 They come from Scotch mares crossed with 

 Flemish sires. This breed produces excellent 

 work horses, and is cliaracterized, like the Shire 

 horse, by the long, thick hair on the leg, which 

 the Suffolk Pimch has not. They are usually 

 brown or black in color, with a star, blaze, or other 

 mark on the forehead, and they frequently have 

 white feet. This is a popular breed in America. 

 Belgium is the country of heavy, cool-blooded 

 horses. It is, above all, on the plains of Flanders, 

 lirabant, and Hainaut that we find stout, strong, 

 lieavy draft horses. These horses are renowned for 

 developed muscles, fine shape, and vast strength. 

 The rump is generally sloping and so powerfully 

 muscled that it forms a hollow in the center of the 

 back, but in spite of this heavy conformation these 

 animals trot with ease. The breed is fast find- 

 ing friends on this side of the water, and many 

 fine specimens have been brought to this country. 



H-VCKNEVS 



The horse of the Ardennes 

 is a lighter animal of the same 

 species, raised on the moun- 

 tains and plateaus of the 

 Ardennes. It is put to the 

 same uses as the Percheron, 

 while the Belgian horses are 

 employed chiefly in drawing 

 heavy loads. 



The Zealand horse has 

 Polo Pony "Mootrub" much in common with the 

 first prize in New York Belgian horse in shape and 



