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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING O' 



OESES 



the more notable ones,. the date of birth and the sire and 

 dam : 



The Shire draft horse in America. — No doubt Shire 

 horses very early found their way to America, although 

 the first authentic account is that of Tamworth, intro- 

 duced from England to London, Ontario, in 1836, by the 

 British troops, and described as a heavy artillery horse. 

 Another, named King Alfred, is mentioned as imported 

 in 1847. The first importations to reach the United 

 States were in 1853, when Strickland introduced a Shire 

 stallion from England to Aurora, Illinois, where he was 

 known as John Bull. A few years later another stallion 

 by the same name was imported to Bristol, Kendall 

 county, Illinois. A man named Slyke owned another 

 called Sampson, which traveled along the Fox River, 

 in northern Illinois, and became very popular as a sire. 

 The descendants of these stallions attracted favorable 

 comment, and sold at high prices for breeding purposes. 



In the first volume of the American Shire Horse Stud 



