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sort would not only be unequaled for draft purposes 

 in Maryland, but that well-matched pairs were ideal 

 for carriage work. He imported a considerable 

 number of these about 1866, and his private con- 

 veyances, horsed by these strong-going grays, were 

 for some years one of the attractive features of 

 Baltimore streets and parkways. Prior to that date 

 practically all of the big horses brought from France 

 had been called by their American owners "Nor- 

 mans"; not that anybody in the land from whence 

 they came had ever thought of applying that title 

 to them, but simply because they had been found 

 and bought for the most part in the district adja- 

 cent to the Perche, called Normandy. 



These "Normans" had already more than made 

 good in the middle west. And no finer demonstration 

 of the value of agricultural shows has to be recorded 

 in live-stock history than is afforded by the fact that 

 it was at an Illinois State Fair of the early seventies 

 that this Dupage county farmer, M. W. DUNHAM, saw 

 for the first time an imported "Norman" stallion, and 

 was so greatly impressed that the beginning of his 

 own subsequently sensational activities in this field 

 has to be dated from that exhibition. The "Fletcher 

 Norman Horse Go." was organized, with Mr. DUNHAM 

 as one of the stockholders. Old Success and French 



