16 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



About March 1, 1911 the Percheron Society of America 

 took over all the books, records and business rights of the 

 Percheron Registry Company, issuing to each of the 

 206 members of the Percheron Registry Company one 

 share of stock in the Percheron Society of America. The 

 Percheron Society also recognized as registered horses 

 the animals recorded by the Percheron Registry Com- 

 pany. The produce of animals with Percheron Registry 

 certificates are not accepted for record, however, until 

 the certificates for such animals are renumbered, rewritten 

 and placed in shape for republication. This rule involves 

 only those Percheron stallions bred to pure-bred mares. 

 Practically all of the animals that were recorded in the 

 Percheron Registry Company that had any produce have 

 already been renumbered in the Percheron Society and 

 most of their pedigrees have been rewritten. The present 

 Percheron Society of America has more than 6700 mem- 

 bers and paid in capital stock in excess of $70,000. 



Literature. Charles Du Hays, The Percheron Horse, New 

 York (1868). 



FRENCH DRAFT HORSES. Figs. 1, 2. 

 By W. L. Carlyle 



8. The northern part of France has been particularly 

 fertile in the production of high-class horses of various 

 types. This has been due in part to the character of 

 the soil and climate and to the food on which they 

 have been fed, and in part also to the taste and tem- 

 perament of the people in this section. In addition to 

 the Percheron and Demi-sang Normand, or French Coach 

 horse, there have been developed in this region several 



