The horse book : a practical treatise on the American horse breeding industry as allied to the farm by Johnstone J. H. S. (James Hope Stewart) b. 1861

Author:Johnstone, J. H. S. (James Hope Stewart), b. 1861
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Horses
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Sanders
Published: 1908-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

than Englisli or Scotcli cart horses of equal size and strength would cost. However, it is well known that until the government seriously took up the business of ameliorating the breed, the faults named were very general among the draft horses of Belgium.

Comparing the stallions and mares of the breed to be seen in America today with those horses of my earlier recollections, a great work of improvement has been done, but there is still a marked lack of levelness of conformation in the breed as a whole, though the type is plainly enough fixed. The short neck and the heavy head are all too often in evidence, but are yielding to the efforts of the breeders to correct these faults. Increasing straightness of topline is visible, but the drooping rump is still a breed characteristic. Of very short legs, with plenty of bone *and with a body of enormous width and most excellent action at the trot, the Belgian has proved very valuable in this country to mate with loosely coupled, gangling mares and has probably done better with that sort than any other breed.

Eeared on low land, eminently suitable for the production of gross horses, the Belgian has little to do from foalhood upward but to eat and grow. He is for the most part reared on soft feed and green grass and in the constant companionship of man, so that he is the most docile horse on earth in addition to being the largest.

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