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Management of Farm-Horses. 
It Is in the Midland Counties that these horses are principally 
bred, and though of no peculiar or distinct breed, they offer as 
favourable specimens of horses adapted for all the various pur- 
poses of agriculture as are to be met with anywhere or in any 
country. 
The Suffolk-Punch is a well known and much esteemed breed 
for agricultural purposes, possessing the combination of strength, 
compactness, and activity more highly than any other breed. It 
is impossible to trace the origin of these horses; but they have 
been cultivated in Suffolk for very many years, and were pro- 
bably once employed for other purposes than those of agriculture. 
These horses are, for the most part, of a chesnut colour, though 
sometimes sorrel, which uniformity shows that they have been 
kept tolerably pure. They are distinguished by roundness of 
barrel and compactness of form generally, combined with great 
activity. They are exceedingly stanch to the collar, free from 
any redundancy of hair on the legs, and are by no means coarse 
about the head. They are rarely of a large size, but usually 
range from 15 to 15^ hands. The most inferior kinds have 
ragged hips and goose-rumps. It speaks highly in favour of this 
breed that, at the late meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society 
of England at Northampton, they carried away two prizes, besides 
one high commendation ; indeed the best and the second best 
2 year-olds were of the Suffolk breed as well as the second best 
horse of any age. As these horses are inclined to be small, size 
should be attended to and encouraged as much as possible. It 
should also be observed that this breed of horses are rather more 
liable to strains of the sinews and ligaments than others. 
The Clydesdale horses are larger than those just mentioned, 
and are found most extensively in the neighbourhood of the river 
after which they are called, where their services in the one-horse 
carts of the district are well appreciated. Indeed there is no 
description of animal that appears better adapted for single-horse 
carts, or that can get through more work in the course of the 
day. They are for the most part powerful horses, standing about 
16 hands high, and are extremely active and indeed very fast 
walkers. Their faults are a tendency to light bodies and long 
legs, and some of them are hot workers : when free from these 
defects they are certainly a most valuable kind of animal for 
agricultural purposes. They are generally docked in their native 
district, and their short tails, so unusual in cart-horses, give them 
a very unique appearance. A pair of Clydesdale horses will 
plough a larger breadth of land than almost any other kind of 
horses, but they require to be well fed in a greater degree than 
most others. 1 hey have usually rather small heads, which, with 
their great activity, shows that their pedigree is not altogether 
