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DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HORSE 



Belgian 



Belgium and Holland and Flanders have some good breeds of 

 draft horses intimately related to the other breeds of Europe, that 

 are very much prized at home. These all have had more or less 

 influence upon the draft horses of America, but about the only one 



BELGIAN STALLION, REVE D'OR 



that has been imported here is the breed known at home as 

 Boulonais. A few of these came to Illinois as early as the late 

 sixties and early seventies, and quite recently they have been im- 

 ported in larger numbers. A magnificent display of the breed 

 was made at the Louisianna Purchase Exposition in 1 904, where 

 they made a sensation. 



Qive the horse his heaviest feed at night when he can rest and digest it 

 properly. 



