HISTORY IN THE MAKING 233 



Emperor were purchased, and from that transaction 

 dates the foundation of the most extraordinary 

 achievement based upon draft-horse breeding the 

 world has ever known. 



Mr. DUNHAM was first of all a good farmer. 

 Efficiency was demanded in the management of his 

 land and crops. He knew the rewards that wait 

 upon thorough tillage, joined with stock- keeping. 

 The "Norman" half-bloods in front of plows, harrows, 

 cultivators and harvesters made things move. They 

 would be a boon inestimable to American farming. 

 A great future loomed before them. An illimitable 

 field opened. Others were plodding along in the 

 business of developing what his keen eye saw could 

 be made an important matter from a national eco- 

 nomic standpoint, and, incidentally, a profitable form 

 of enterprise. He bought his partners' interests, 

 utilized his bank credit and went to his life-work 

 with a courage and determination born of complete 

 faith in the certainty of success, and when he had 

 finished he had not only amassed a personal fortune 

 in a legitimate field, but the Percheron was placed 

 in almost every nook and corner of the northern 

 states, and France was the richer by reason of 

 the enormous American demand that still pours a 

 steady stream of "Yankee" gold into the savings 



