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Title: Island Home stud of Percheron horses : Island Home Stock Farm, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Mich. ... : Savage & Farnum, proprietors
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage & Farnum Island Home Stock Farm (Grosse Ile, Mich.)
Subjects: Island Home Stock Farm (Grosse Ile, Mich.) Horses Percheron horse Percheron horse Percheron horse
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : John F. Eby & Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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draws the omnibus plying between the hotel and station. A gray mare seven years old, belonging to M. Cousturur, at Fleurysur Andelle (Eure), harnessed to a tilbury, traveled fifty-eight miles andback on two consecutive days, going at a trot and without being touchedwith a whip. This was over the road from Lyons la Fossette to PointAndmere and back, through a hilly country. The following time wasmade: The first day the distance was trotted in 4 hours 1 min. 35 sec, thesecond day, 4 hours, 1 min. 30 sec. The last thirteen and three-fourthsmiles were made in one hour, although the mare was obliged to pass herstable at the forty-first mile to finish the distance. The foregoing history of the Percheron race will give the reader anidea of the origin, development and status of the breed as it exists inFrance. Although recognized there as the superior of all other draftbreeds in that country, the preservation of its pedigrees and the publica-tion of a stud book will add greatly to its value.
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PLUVIOSE 3755 (683). (See page 33.) PEKCHERON HORSES. 23 THE PAST AND PRESENT SYSTEM OF BREEDINGIN THE PEIICHE. The following extract, quoted from the writings of M. Fardouet, oneof the oldest and most prominent breeders of the Perche, and which isfully corroborated by a careful perusal of history, confines its modificationsto meet the present developments of the changed condition of the countryto three periods of existence. First—To horses suitable for the saddle and for war. Second—For agricultural and commercial interests. Third—The period when the heavy draft-horse, with the activity ofthe lighter types, came into active demand, which began about fifty yearsago. He says : This matchless breed, whose antiquity of origin stands first amongthose of the equine races of civilized nations, has been molded to meet thenecessities of the different periods of its existence, for hundreds of yearsunder the vivifying influences and climatic effects of the Perche, as wellas by the inimita

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