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labour. The prize drawer of the butter-milk cart is 

 to be a " horse not above fifteen hands, *^ and of the 

 sweet-milk ditto a ^' pony not above fourteen-two/^ 

 Many farmers fancy that Clydesdales are getting too 

 lofty, but breeders will keep the high prices of 

 the lorry market in their eye. For this business the 

 buyers never look at anything under sixteen-two and 

 17 cwt., and they must have capital feet, "good 

 either for frost or fresh." liarge ears, a fiddle-case 

 rather than a Eoman or ''^Cheshire Cheese" head, 

 a good eye, broad flat legs, nicely feathered like a set- 

 ter's, straight-away equal action, and a good mottled 

 bay or brown are all very cardinal points."^ 



The Giasgovf meetings in 1826 and 1828 were the 

 first at which the Highland Society ofi'ered Clydes- 

 dale prizes, and since then they have gone on steadily. 

 With the excention of one vear, tlie entries have of 

 course always been best in the Glasgow district, and 

 rose there in 1857 to 21^0. There were sixteen rare 

 mares at Perth in ^29, when a black oue of Mr. 

 Adarn Curror's, and bought from "Sammel Graham," 

 won; and the Kingcausie people, who were very con- 

 fident with one of their greys, had to take the second 

 card. Mr. Fram of Bromfield, on the old road 

 from Edinburgh to Ayr, was soon well known 

 among Clydesdale men v>'ith his Glancer, who was 

 never beaten till he was twelve. The scene of his 



* All the learning on the subject of Clydesdales is collected in the pam- 

 phlet published a few years aero by Mr. Charles Stevenson, editor of the 

 " North British Agriculturist,"' in reply to tao queries on the subject which 

 Avere sent to him from France. 



