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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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re useful tofarmers in working their tough clay soils. In the United States, especi-ally in the AVest and South, the alluvial nature of the soil does not re-quire such strength of team in plowing ; l)ut the vast amount of hauliiifto be done in and near cities, where the railroad and steamer traffic of thecountry centres, will always cause a demand for large, ablc-l)odied drafthorses. The Shire horse seems to have taken the place of the Suffolk horse inEngland, so we have seen them in the United States. They are a largerhorse than the Clydesdale, more upstanding with, perhaps, better hoofs.The hairy lower limbs, like the Clydesdale, is against them, in the eyes cfthe American farmer. Like the Clydesdale, they are magnificent draftanimals, strong, true and honest, but we do not think they stand hard citypavements much better than the Clydes. The back and body is moreeymmetrical, in our view, than that of the Clyde. Like the Clyde, their BREEDS OF HORSES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTIC& 125
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126 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTCa. walk and trot is majestic but slow, and they are not better suited to West-ern agricultural soils. When lirst introduced into Canada and the UnitedStates, both the Clydes and Shires attracted great attention until thePercherons and heavy Normans were introduced. The style, endurance,quicker action and muscular effort was superior, in the eye of the Westernman; hence, the Norman and Percheron became the favorites, and theyhave gained, rather than lost, ever since. This the show rings at our greatfairs continue to si ow. Nevertheless, the Clyde and Shire continue thefavorites among many breeders and farmers. For export to Great Britain,they are in request. rv. The Norman-Percheron Horse. Norman-Percheron horses are now generally divided into two classes:the Norman, a heavy, muscular, closely-built animal of great bone andmuscle, weighing sometimes 2,200 to 2,300 pounds, and the Percheron,a liirhter, cleaner built and more active an

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