The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. . 136 THE HORSE know from observation and experience that all deep-bellied horses carrytheir food long, and consequently are able to stand a longer and harderdays work. This variety is now quite extinct; the improved Suffolk islighter and quicker than the old breed, Avith a low, powerful shoulder, andvery drooping croup. The legs also are very clean and wiry. A goodexample will be found in the engraving. The Suffolk now shares with the Clydesdale pretty equally the approba-tion of
The horse in the stable and the field : his varieties, management in health and disease, anatomy, physiology, etc. . 136 THE HORSE know from observation and experience that all deep-bellied horses carrytheir food long, and consequently are able to stand a longer and harderdays work. This variety is now quite extinct; the improved Suffolk islighter and quicker than the old breed, Avith a low, powerful shoulder, andvery drooping croup. The legs also are very clean and wiry. A goodexample will be found in the engraving. The Suffolk now shares with the Clydesdale pretty equally the approba-tion of the farmers throughout Great Britain, the former being generally. From a photograph by Pratt and Son. CHAMPION SUFFOLK STALLION, HIS GRACE. preferred in the south, and the latter in the north. Admirers of theSuffolk maintain that no other horse is so hardy, and that he will domore woik in the same time, and on the same amount of food, than anyother. The testing of such a matter is not so simple as it may appear, forit would be necessary to try the experiment with a number of horses ofeach kind, and carry it on for months together. A less severe andcomplete trial would be of little use, and could not by any means be con-sidered as definitive, nor would it be so even conducted as I have said itought to be unless it was under the actual superintendence of unprejudicedobservers. THE IMPROVED LINCOLNSHIRE DRAY-HORSE 137 THE IMPROVED LINCOLNSHIRE DRAY-HORSE About the same time the farmers of Lincolnshire were employed inproducing, partly for their own heavy clay lands, but chiefly for the useof the London drays, a large and magnificently-shaped animal, ge
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