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Report of the Live-Stock 
to show that agriculture and the prodactioii of fine herds and 
flocks is one of the most ennobling, as it is one of the oldest, 
occupations in the world. 
HORSES. 
From the very peculiar method in which the Society's Cata- 
logue arrives at its definition of what constitutes the Ensrlish 
breed of heavy draught-horses, it seems necessary to discuss first 
the display of Suffolks. An English carthorse, it would seem, 
is anything " which is not Suffolk nor Clydesdale." We must 
enquire then what were, at Reading, the Suffolks or the 
Clydesdales ? And having got these out of the way, one may 
arrive at an opinion of what Mr. Bright calls " the residuum," 
which in this case is the English carthorse. 
Suffolks. 
The Suffolk horses at this year's exhibition would have 
attracted the notice of the most careless observer. They 
formed six classes of magnificent chestnut horses ; of which the 
most remarkable points were, 1st, that they should ever have 
been bred to cultivate a stubborn clay ; 2nd, that they were not 
Oriental ; so like a Barb are many of them, especially among 
the mares. The Judges, with natural enthusiasm, pick upon 
the most suspicious points of their favourites for praise ; and 
especially approve " their feet ; " and say that now " these will 
stand the London stones." " The London stones," now-a-days, 
when it does not mean asphalte, means wooden-pavement ; and 
the noble, clean-legged, spirited animals at Reading might cer- 
tainly suit both. Indeed, they seemed far more adapted to 
" bowl along " a brougham or waggonette in Regent Street than 
to tug a tumbril or timber-wain in a Suffolk lane. Yet it 
cannot be questioned that the Suffolk will drudge on a farm, for 
Suffolk evidence, to this effect, cannot be gainsaid. Mr. S. 
Wolton's " Newbourn Princess " is a kind of " Pocahontas " or 
Queen Mary" in her way, having bred both " Chieftain " (1st 
in Class 7) and " Chief-of-the-East " (1st in Class 8). The 
Duke of Hamilton's " Chief" (1st in Class 9), owed, it was said, 
his position to a third Judge, who was called in as referee. At 
the County Show, Mr. Horace Wolton's " Multum-in-parvo " 
was, as here, second. But his conqueror, at Framlingham, was 
Mr. R. H. Wrinch's " The Wanderer," now put third ; whilst 
at Reading, as has been said, the "Chief" won. These two 
judgments should put Mr. H. Wolton's horse as about the best 
of his year. There were few mares. Only one appeared with 
