. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. e rather inclined to crave thewhip, than to draw me>re than is nccdfull. Andfor this purpose Mares are most profitable; forbesides the effecting of your work, they yearlybring you fresh increase : therefore if you fur-nish your draught with .Marcs to breed, observein any wise lo have flicm fair forehanded, thatis good head, neck, breast and shoulders; forthe rest it is not so regard full, onely let herboely be large; for the bigger room the Foalhath in the dams Belly, the fairer are his mem-bers. And above all things, observe never toput you
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. e rather inclined to crave thewhip, than to draw me>re than is nccdfull. Andfor this purpose Mares are most profitable; forbesides the effecting of your work, they yearlybring you fresh increase : therefore if you fur-nish your draught with .Marcs to breed, observein any wise lo have flicm fair forehanded, thatis good head, neck, breast and shoulders; forthe rest it is not so regard full, onely let herboely be large; for the bigger room the Foalhath in the dams Belly, the fairer are his mem-bers. And above all things, observe never toput your draught beasts to the saddle, for thatalters their pace, and hurts them in theirLabour. breed of horses which existed there, and which,whilst doing the work of the farm, was alsoable to do the work of a harness horse or onoccasion of a hunter. It seems, therefore, probable that all our original breeds were whatare now known as light leggerl horv^K, arid thatthe feather and big \>t>ii<: was an imjiortatiofifrom Belgium. TfU I/Ookkk Here is some sound advice, and it may be re-marked, by the way, that it is one thing infavour of the Cleveland Bay mare that she cando much of the work of the farm, and breed alight horse of the typo which will be wantedsome day—perhaps when there will be somedifficulty in finding him. The description ofthe draught horse given by Markhamwould almost make one think that the draughthorses useel in the time of Charles I. and theCommonwealth were Something of the Clevelandtype. His insistence on the good forehand, head,neck, and shoulders, at any rate, would seem tojustify the opinion. The advice given neverto put draught horses to saddle would also seemto point out that the horses used in the ploughin those davs were very different to the Shireor Clydesdale. The Northumberland Vardv Horse—a breed ofwhich but little is known, but about whose ac-tivity many traditions remain—would probablybe the type of agricultural horse in
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