The Draft Breeds of Great Britain 



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The Sutiolk lias a very clean leg, showing no more hair or 

 feather than the French breeds. In this respect thev are so 

 radically different from the very hairv-legged Shire horse in the 

 adjoining counties that it is hard for many people to believe that 

 they are both bred in the same small country. The Shire horse 

 breeders hardly consider the Snff'olks at all and refuse to class 

 them as a draft breed. Among the breeders of Snffolks, the 

 shaggy-legged Shire is even less popular. Both are prejudiced 

 and have no ideas or aims in common. 



Fig. 3G. Scifolk Make, SmnoruxE ^NfAiiuiLAss, Cham- 

 pion AT Last Royal Siioav, Shrewsiury, England, 

 JrxE, 1014. OwxED i!Y ^fi;. C'lark 



iPlioli, hji K. S. M;ill, Si/rai-ii-^r. \, Y.) 



The principal restrictions to tbeir more rapid introduction in 

 the United States were the small numl)er of animals of any age 

 available, as well as tlie keen competition among buyers of the 

 various countries, and the high prices, which average somewhat 

 higher than for other draft lu-eeds. ]\Iany of the old-time 

 Suft'olks liad long low backs, crooked Avoak hocks. Hat lu'ittle feet, 

 and were light in l)one compared with size and bulk of top. These 

 very serious faults, somewhat common to the Suffolk up to about 

 1900, have been largely corrected and eliminated. The present- 

 day Suffolk has probably more size, more (piality, and l)Ottor 

 conformation than at any tinie in the past. 



