THE DRAFT BREEDS OF HORSES ot 
to the criticism of being deficient in quality and too slug- 
gish in temperament. In general, they may be considered 
to be of heavier weight than the Clydesdale, although 
the difference is not likely to be great between represen- 
tative animals, as the following weights and measure- 
ments of two prize- 
winners will indicate: 
Vulean (4145), a Shire 
stallion that was 
champion at the 
London Shire Show, 
in 1889 and _ 1891, 
when eight years old 
weighed 2240 pounds 
in show. condition; 
height, 17 hands; 
girth, 8 feet 7 inches; 
around fore-arm, 2 
feet 7 inches; around 
bone below knee, 12 
inches. Flashwood 
(3604), a Clydesdale Fic. 6.— Shire stallion. 
stallion that was first 
at the Glasgow Spring Stallion Show, in the same years 
and months that Vulcan was first-prize stallion at the 
London show, and at the same age (eight years), weighed 
2240 pounds; height, 17 hands; girth, 8 feet; around 
fore-arm, 20 inches; around bone below knee, 11 inches; 
above hock, 214 inches; and below hock, 125 inches. In 
the best types the legs are strong, bone flat with a 
“feather” of fine hair on the rear of the cannons, below 
the knees and hocks. The feet are large and somewhat 
flatter at the heel than is desired, 
