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stud book for the breed has been established, of 

 which three volumes have been issued. Chas. 

 Burgess of Wenona, 111., is Secretary of the 

 Association having the work in charge. 



CLYDESDALES. 



To the casual observer the difference in ap- 

 pearance between the Clydesdale and the Shire 

 horse is not especially noticeable. They cer- 

 tainly possess many features in common, and 

 to give a history of the Clydesdale breed would 

 simply be to recapitulate much of what has 

 been written in the preceding pages concerning 

 the origin of the draft breeds of England, for 

 they have been evolved from the same original 

 stock and by substantially the same course of 

 selection and breeding. We have the same 

 origin for both breeds in the great Black horse 

 breed of Flanders. We hear of them first in 

 Lanarkshire, when William, Earl of Douglas 

 (one of the ancestors of the Duke of Hamilton, 

 who in later years became so famous as a 

 breeder of Clydesdales), obtained a special edict 

 of "safe conduct" from King Edward to take 

 "ten grooms and ten large horses from certain 

 places in Scotland to certain places in Teviot- 

 dale in the King's dominions." This safe con- 

 duct was issued July 1, 1352, and is the earliest 

 positive mention we have of great horses in 

 Scotland. The editor of the Clydesdale Stud 

 Book, commenting on this document, says: 



