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entered up to MARK W. DUNHAM'S eternal credit 

 long before the fateful day when his noble spirit 

 winged its way homeward to the skies. Of these, 

 however, I may not speak. 



There is no mistaking the place held by the 

 Percheron in American commerce and agriculture. 

 There is no way of even estimating in millions of 

 dollars the additions to the national wealth directly 

 due to the introduction of this exceptionally sound 

 and serviceable horse of heavy draft. And wherever 

 the Percheron is known, not only in the United 

 States, but in France as well, there is recognition 

 of the fact that the man who really made the 

 breeding and rearing of big-type Percheron horses 

 an important national industry in both countries 

 was MARK WENTWORTH DUNHAM. He had colleagues 

 and competitors in the work of advising America 

 upon the subject of the peculiar adaptability of the 

 French horses to our soil, our rural highways, our 

 city pavements, our climate and our general agri- 

 cultural conditions; but he had infinitely greater 

 grasp of the possibilities involved to the peoples of 

 both nations than any of his contemporaries, and 

 brought to the task of educating American farmers 

 up to an appreciation of Percheron blood a mind 

 that would have made its possessor a man of high 



