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Farmer. This strain was in existence from 1780 to 1880 and 

 at one time was very popular. 



2. The Wright strain. This originated from a horse from 

 Lincolnshire known as Wright's Farmer's Glory, or the Attle- 

 boro horse. He was a chestnut, clean-limbed, and may have been 

 a half-bred Suffolk. This strain existed from 1800 to about 1880. 



3. The Shadingfield strain. This came from the produce of a 

 trotting horse, the son of a Thoroughbred, and he also was a 

 chestnut. This strain existed for about half a century, the last 

 being foaled in 1846. 



4. Martin s Boxer strain. This appeared to be a Suffolk, 

 though he was not, being out of a " black blood mare." This strain 

 never obtained any foothold bey'ond two mares of remote breeding. 



These strains were all started to improve the breed, but they 

 presented deficiencies ; neither could they overcome the predom- 

 inant Suffolk blood and character. 



The history of the modern Suffolk horse is essentially a most 

 compact one. It deals with the development of the breed mainly 

 in Suffolk and vicinity by the farmers generally, and is histori- 

 cally correct, largely due to the far-reaching investigations of 

 Herman Biddell, the editor of the first "Suffolk Studbook." 

 Among the horses of the last century that had much influence 

 on the development of the breed are Edward's Old Briton (490), 

 Catlin's Duke (296), Crisp's Fairhead's Boxer (405), Julian's 

 Boxer (755), Crisp's Cupbearer (1416), Garret's Cupbearer 3d 

 (566), and Foxhall (1423). The latter was imported to America 

 by Galbraith Brothers. 



The history of the Suffolk horse in America is rather restricted, 

 these horses being comparatively unknown in the United States 

 in the early eighties. In 1882 the editor of the National Live 

 Stock Journal wrote : " If some of these Suffolk horses could be 

 imported and bred alongside of the Shire and Clydesdale, it would 

 give an opportunity to see what would prove the best for Ameri- 

 can purposes." In 1883 this same journal states that Suffolks are 

 finding great favor in Canada. However, Powell Brothers of Penn- 

 sylvania imported the first stallions to the United States in 1880. 

 In 1888 Galbraith Brothers of Janesville, Wisconsin, made their 

 first importation of stallions, and Peter Hopley & Company of 



