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specimens have been brought here, yet, nothwithstanding this fact, 

 they have crossed with the native mares in America and produced 

 animals vastly superior in conformation, in endurance, in elegance 

 and in activity to those that the very best stallions of any other draft breed 

 have ever been able to produce. At all the greatest shows of draft 

 work horses in this country they have never been defeated by the 

 produce of any other draft breed crossed with the mares of this coun- 

 try. At the recent Inter-National in Chicago, these grade Percherons 

 defeated the very best pure bred animals of the other draft breeds that 

 unlimited expenditures of money could find in Europe. 



The economical farmers of this country who wish to produce on 

 their farms the greatest quantity of products with the least cost, and 

 those are the men who are always successful, will find that grade Per- 

 cherons will do more work on their farms for a less expenditure in 

 feed than will any other breed of horses that can be found. I wish to 

 urge this fact especially upon your attention. I do not think that 

 there is any possible way of being of more benefit to a community 

 than to be instrumental in procuring animals of this breed tO' work on 

 your farms, and thereby not only increase the production, but diminish 

 the cost as well. At this time, when so many of the young men are 

 leaving the farms for the cities, it is essential in order to induce the 

 young man to stay on the farm that he have some interest that will 

 keep him there; good horses will produce more good effect in this 

 line than will other breeds of live stock. 



There is also another side, which, while it should not, yet it will 

 probably interest you more, that is the side which touches the pocket- 

 book. There is no place in which the products of the farm can be 

 placed more profitably than in good horses. There is always a de- 

 mand for the best, and the best always brings high prices. Only re- 

 cently in New York a large firm paid $45,000 for one-hundred-grade 

 Percherons. These horses were all bred in the middle west, and the 

 men who bred them certainly never made more money out of the corn and 

 oats they fed to any animals than they did from the oats and corn 

 these horses ate, and while they were eating it they were enabled, 

 after the age of two years, to always earn enough to much more than 

 pay for the feed they consumed. 



There is another type of horse which is very profitable for the 

 farmer to raise. It not only gives him great pleasure, but great profit 

 as well. This is the highest class carriage horse. His height is about 

 sixteen hands. His weight about twelve hundred pounds, and with 

 this he must possess a beautiful conformation as well as good action. 



