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Title: Agriculture, ancient and modern: a historical account of its principles and practice, exemplified in their rise, progress, and development
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Copland, Samuel
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London, Virtue and company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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the present time more generally in favour than at any formerperiod, and some valuable types of the breed have of late years been exhibited at theRoyal Agricultural and other cattle shows throughout the kingdom. The old breed,which is not quite extinct, was remarkable for activity and determined perseverance at adead pull; and it is said that a Suffolk Punch would strain at it till he dropped ratlierthan give in. The present breed is the produce of a Norman stallion by the old Suffolkmare. Their colour is generally sorrel, but sometimes bay or chestnut. Some of themare a cross of a Yorkshire half-bred horse. More attention has been paid of late years inSuffolk to the selection of brood mares of the native stock, and the result is that thesymmetry of the present horses is much finer than formerly, and as draught animalsthey are perhaps as handsome as any breed extant. It is well known that iu Suffolk andNorfolk, wliere the Suffolk liorses are reared and employed, the farmers plough more
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THE AGRICULTURAL, OR CART-HORSE. 329 land in a day than any other county. They were introduced into Scotland by theEarl of Hopetoun about seventy years since, and were much approved then. It was beautiful, says Youatt, to see a team of true SufFolks, at a signal from thedriver, and without the whip, down on their knees in a moment, and drag everythingbefore them. Brutal wagers were frequently laid as to their powers in this respect, andmany a good team was injmed and ruined. The immense power of the Suffolk Punchis accounted for by the low position of the shoulder which enables him to throw so muchof his weight into the collar. The old Suffolk Punch stood fifteen or sixteen hands high,had a large head, low shoulders, wide ears, coarse muzzle, a long and straight back, flatsides, hind quarters rather high at the hips, legs round, pasterns short, a deep carcase,and a full flank. The present breed is much handsomer, and at the same time possessesthe same qualities of activity, endurance,

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