Category: History - Other
Arabian, The type horse, 51 Good tempered, 60 Cross imparts endurance, 59 Qualities obtained from, 75 Cross-breeds easy to raise, 61-63 Disproportionately small legs, 63 Labor at three years, 61 Larger than their sires, 62-68 Square trotters, 59 Surest to turn out well, 62 Sta...
Arabian, The type horse, 51 Good tempered, 60 Cross imparts endurance, 59 Qualities obtained from, 75 Cross-breeds easy to raise, 61-63 Disproportionately small legs, 63 Labor a...
5. CHAPTER I.The Department of Perche is too well known to need a description here. We will limit ourselves to the remark that this region, which has become so celebrated for its fine race o...
6. CHAPTER II.The height of the Percheron horse is generally 14¾ to 16 hands; he is of a sanguine temperament, mixed in variable proportions with the musculo-lymphatic; his color is almost al...
7. CHAPTER III.What, now, is the origin of the Percheron? Some attribute to him an Arabian ancestry; others, less explicit and without positively assigning to him so noble an origin, hold him...
8. CHAPTER IV.The Percheron race comes from the Arab; but it is useful to know the causes which have separated it from the primitive type. How has it been modified? How has it lost the Arabia...
9. CHAPTER V.Perche is bounded, in its whole length, by the immense plains of Beauce. On account of this position, it was always traversed by the post-coaches for Paris, and by all the suppl...
10. CHAPTER VI.We know how the sexes are divided in Perche; one section of the province produces, while another raises what the other has produced. No matter what may be the class to which she...
11. CHAPTER VII.The breeding of the Percheron horse has been so much the more stimulated, in consequence of his situation, his well-known qualities, and the favorable economical circumstances i...
12. CHAPTER VIII.As long as the post-coaches were flourishing and the diligences crossing France in every direction, it was especially a horse fit for their uses that Perche devoted itself to pr...
13. PART II.Perche, in order to retain its best customers, and not drop to a level with the common herd of horse-breeders, must at once have recourse to systematic means of improvement. Her...
14. CHAPTER I.There are two ways of crossing applicable to any breed, both of which have had their earnest partisans. So much clamor has been made about them, I think, only because they have...
15. CHAPTER II.The first manner, also called _selection_, consists in making, among the race itself, a rational, judicious choice of the most perfect types; those which are as free as possible...
16. CHAPTER III.Conjugal consanguinity has neither partisans nor friends. The physiologist, physician, priest, and legislator, have always launched against it the same anathema. All, in making...
17. CHAPTER IV.Thus, while acknowledging my former preferences for the gray horse over the horse of a different shade, I am now very far from showing myself exclusive, and quarreling with the...
18. CHAPTER V.We have spoken, in Chapter II, Part First, of the three types which the Percheron race presents—the light horse, the draft horse, and the intermediate or post horse. These three...
19. CHAPTER VI.Two different breeds present themselves to us as means of improving our stock by the introduction of foreign blood: the Arabian, and the English, with its variations. Starting f...
20. CHAPTER VII._2nd._ The Percheron shows a very great analogy, by his coat, conformation, character of race, mild disposition, and endurance, to the Arab, of which he seems to be the son, not...
21. CHAPTER VIII.English blood, infused with judgment, allies well with the Percheron race, and we have met with perfectly successful results in the midst of the disappointments which have been...
22. CHAPTER IX.The Percheron breed is old enough, is propagated with sufficient uniformity, and presents sufficiently marked typical qualities to authorize us in claiming, in favor of its memb...
23. PART III.Although I consider Perche an exceptional country for the production of good horses, I attribute to its air, to its water, and to the nutritiveness of its grasses, the admirable...
24. CHAPTER I.The stallion, in the districts inhabited by mares, is, with some rare exceptions, a “rover,”—that is to say, he visits the farms at stated periods. His standing season lasts six...
25. CHAPTER II.The good horses are generally bought upon the farms, and among these the dealers are constantly roaming. The trade of the whole of France, and the numerous and intelligent amate...
26. CHAPTER III.We have said that one of the distinctive qualities of the Percheron horse, and one which has won for him universal esteem, was fast trotting while drawing a heavy load. It would...
27. CHAPTER IV.The first time in 1864, drawing 386 pounds, 2⅗ miles in 9 minutes 21 seconds; the second time, in 1865, drawing 408 pounds the same distance, 10 minutes 49 seconds.
28. CHAPTER V.A gray mare bred by M. Beaulavoris, at Almenesches, (Orne), in 1845, belonging to M. Montreuil, horse dealer at Alençon, performed the following match:—Harnessed to a traveling-...