tailieunhanh - MODERN FARM LIVE STOCK

Arthur Young at the end of the eighteenth century found only two kinds of cart horses worthy of mention, the Shire and the Suffolk Punch; to-day, besides these two, we have the Clydesdale. The Shire horse, according to Sir Walter Gilbey, is the purest survival of the Great Horse of mediaeval times, known also as the War Horse, and the Old English Black Horse. It is the largest of draught horses, attaining a height of 17 to hands and a weight of 2,200 lb., its general characteristics being immense strength, symmetrical proportions, bold free action, and docile disposition | MODERN FARM LIVE STOCK CART HORSES Arthur Young at the end of the eighteenth century found only two kinds of cart horses worthy of mention the Shire and the Suffolk Punch to-day besides these two we have the Clydesdale. The Shire horse according to Sir Walter Gilbey is the purest survival of the Great Horse of mediaeval times known also as the War Horse and the Old English Black Horse. It is the largest of draught horses attaining a height of 17 to hands and a weight of 2 200 lb. its general characteristics being immense strength symmetrical proportions bold free action and docile disposition. In 1878 the Shire Horse Society was established to improve the breed and distribute sound and healthy sires through the country. The Clydesdale whose native home is the valley of the Clyde is not so large as the Shire but strong active and a fine worker. They are either derived from a cross between Flemish stallions and Lanarkshire mares or are an improvement of the old Lanark breed. 734 The Suffolk Punch looks what he is-a thorough farm horse. He stands lower than the two former breeds but weighs heavily often 2 000 lb. They are generally chestnut or light dun in colour and their legs are without the feather of the Clydesdale and Shire. They have been long associated with Suffolk and were mentioned by Camden in 1586. According to the Suffolk Stud Book of 1880 the Suffolk horses of to-day are with few exceptions the descendants in the direct male line of the original breed described by Arthur Young. CATTLE What was the original breed of cattle in this island is uncertain. The Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1887 favours the view that the herds of wild cattle such as still exist at Chillingham represent the original breed of Great Britain. It states that the urus was the only indigenous wild ox in this country and the source of all our domesticated breeds as well as of the few wild ones that remain such as the Chillingham breed which is