580 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
Young remembers seeing some of the old breed which were 
famous, " and in some respects an uglier horse could not be 
viewed ; sorrel colour, very low before, large ill-shaped head, 
with slouching, heavy ears, a great carcass, and short legs, but 
short-backed, and more of the punch than some will allow." He 
goes on to say that " they could only walk and draw, but could 
trot no better than a cow," but admits " that of late years they 
had changed to a handsome and most active horse," and thinks 
" that in useful draft of cart and plough they would beat the 
great black horse of the Midlands." " The fair comparison 
would be, let a given sum be invested in the purchase of each 
breed, and then by means of which will 1000 tons of earth be 
moved to a given distance by the smallest quantity of hay and 
oats. It is the hay and oats that are to be compared, not the 
number or size of the cartle." 
Carrots were at that time very largely used as food for horses, 
and, as it appears from Young's description, were considered 
the most economical that could be given them, equal to a com- 
bination of corn and hay, and keeping them in vastly better 
condition. 
Thirteen bushels per week were sufficient for one horse, 
without any corn whatever, and he ate only half the hay that 
a corn-fed one did. Prime cost per bushel, calculated at 3rf. 
and 3^ stones of hay, per week Is. 6(/., making the total weekly 
keep 4s. ^dd. 
This, it must be admitted, sounds most economical, and 
though about 1000 acres of carrots are grown annually in the 
county, only on one of the farms, Mr. Horace Wolton's, did we 
find them extensively used as horse-food ; and as a stimulus, 
at least, to enquiry we give Young's conclusion as to this in 
full. " I cannot," he says, " conclude the subject, without 
earnestly calling on all persons who have sands, or light sandy 
loams, to determine to emancipate themselves from the chains 
in which prejudice, or indolence, have bound them. To 
cultivate this admirable root largely and vigorously ; to give it 
the best soil they have ; to plough very deep ; to boe with 
great spirit ; and to banish corn from their stables, as a mere 
luxury and barren expense that ought to be extirpated ; an effect 
that flows very fairly, from the preference which the instinct 
of the four-footed inhabitant generally gives to the carrots." 
Beet, which has been a valuable acquisition to heavy-land 
farmers in Suffolk, furnishing a supply of spring and early 
summer food for stock, is a comparatively recent introduction, 
first heard of about 1810. 
Suffolk has long been famed as one of the chief centres 
in the kingdom for the manufacture of some of the most 
