SUFFOLK PUNCH 



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referred to as the " Old Breed." Newspaper accounts of draft 

 trials are still extant bearing dates of the early part of the eighteenth 

 century. It appears that the old Suffolks possessed indomitable 

 pluck and courage to pull. They would draw until they came 

 down to their knees. This grit in the collar has given them an 

 enviable reputation as drafters. About 1 770 a Yorkshire trotting 

 horse, known as Blake's Farmer, a short-legged chestnut stallion, 

 was extensively used as a sire in Suffolk. Perhaps the majority of 

 Suffolks trace to him, many of them through young Briton, his most 

 noted great-grandson, foaled in 1 796. The prepotency of the 

 old breed was very great, and its characters have become very 

 firmly implanted on whatever stock has been brought into close 

 relations with it. 



SUFFOLK MARE NECTAR AND FOAL 



Very few Suffolks are found in America ; but they possess very 

 useful attributes. They are described as middle-sized horses, 

 weighing 1 300 to 1 800 pounds, are always sorrel or chestnut in 



"Have been selling your Gall Cure to Potomac Coal Co. for two years. 

 They recommend it highly for horses with sore shoulders. 



P. H. Gallagher, ^arton, rMd. " 



