Identifier: americanhorsesho00dimo (find matches)
Title: American horses and horse breeding : a complete history of the horse from the remotest period in his history to date. The horseman's encyclopedia and standard authority on horses, embracing breeds, families, breeding, training, shoeing, and general management. The modern and practical horse doctor on the cause, nature, symptoms, and treatment of diseases of all kinds
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dimon, John
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : J. Dimon
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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)revailing colors are black,brown, and bay, with usually more or less white markings. This breed has been quite extensively imported into theUnited States and Canada, and have exercised a powerful in-fluence on the draft horse stock of this country. Among the importers in the United States may be men-tioned Powell Brothers, Shadeland, Pa., John H. Bass, FortWayne, Ind., Robert Ilolloway, Alexis, 111., etc. Among the Canadian importers may l)e classed D. & O.Sorby of Guelph, Ont.; H. H. Kurd, Hamilton, Ont.; C. M.Acer, Montreal, Que.; 11. Beath & Co., Bowmanville, Ont., andWilliam Rennie of Toronto, Ont. This breed has its staunch friends among the draft horsebreeders of America, and for years it has been a tug of waramong American breeders as to which of the three great drafthorse breeds—the Percheron, English Draft, and Clydesdale—was the most popular and meritorious.
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CHAPTER XY. SHETLAND PONIES. The Shetland Isles—Sustained by survival of the fittest—Purest of aiibreeds of ponies. THE Shetland Islands, lying in the high latitude of 59 to 61degrees, north of Scotland, once belonged to Denmark^but since the year 1468 have belonged to and are a part of Scot-land, being separated therefrom by nearly 200 miles of roughand dangerous sea. They consist of about 120 islands, the whole area of Avhichis about 500 square miles. Of all these islands only aboutfifteen or twenty are inhabited, chief among which is the Main-land, containing the only towns or villages in the whole group.Lerwick, with a population of about 5,000, is the capital, andScalloway, the former capital, has a population of about 700,and is situated about seven miles west of Lerwich on the coast;all other places are very small and devoted almost entirely tothe fishing interests. The other islands of this group of some account are Bres-say, Whalsey, Fetlar, Yell, and Unst, the latter bei

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