An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 954 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. fore-end low,
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 954 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt III. fore-end low, long sometimes, but always very straight, sides flat, shoulders too far forward, hind- „„. quarters middling, but rather high about the hips, °—5 legs round and sliort in the i)asterns, deep-bellied, and full in the flank. Here, perhaps, lies much of the merit of these horses ; for we know, from ob- servation and experience, that all deep-bellied horses'carry their food long, and consequently are enabled to stand longer and harder days' works. However, certain it is, that these horses do perform surprising days' works. It is well known, that the Suttblk and Norfolk farmers plough more land in a day than any other people in the island ; and these are the kind of horses every where used in those districts.' (Ctilley on Live Slock, p. 27.) Since Culley's time much pains have been taken to im- prove this useful breed, and to render them, by cul- tivation, fitted not only for heavy but for light work. It is no uncommon thing for a Suffolk stallion to fetch from 2U(I/. to .300/. The best show of these stallions in England is at Woodl)ridge Lady-day fair, where Suffolk cart mares have brought from 1(X)/. to , and one mare and her offspring a few years ago at this fair brought 1000/. The figure (825.) hardlv does justice to the animal. (.1/ ) 6243. The Clydesdale horse tAe. 826.) has been long in high repute in Scotland and the north of England; and, for the jjurposes o
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