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HORSE SFXTION. 



Tliere is no standard color for the Belgian breed, but red and blue roans 

 are ninst popular, while ba_\'s and browns also exist. 



The typical Belgian horse is blocky, wide, heavy, on short clean legs. His 

 neclv is usually short and muscular, in fact he is inclined to be muscular or 

 exceedingly fat at all times, and as a rule these Belgian horses are perhaps more 

 readily and quickly fattened tlian those of any other breed. 



This makes the Belgian grade exceedingly popular with the professional horse 

 breeders, as it reciuires 1)ut a short time to condition them for market. 



Tliis l)reed is rapidly improving along the lines of activity, and owing to the 

 kind, gentle disposition of the Belgian, they are liecoming exceedingly popular. 



Shire Mare 



THE ENGLISH SHIRE HORSE. 



The English Shire horse originated from a cross between the black stallions 

 of England and the native mares. They produced a very heavy, hairy legged draft 

 horse manv vears ago. and this same animal is still bred pure, and gradually 

 lias been improved in many particulars. The black color is no longer a character- 

 istics of the breed. The Shire horses of today are mostly bay or brown, and they 

 are less coarse and sluggish than they formerly were. Perhaps the largest 

 number of pure bred Shire horses are raised in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, 

 England. 



The first volume of the Stud Book of the Shire Horse Society of England 



