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aration of the initial volume. He had not delved 

 very deep, however, in this interesting field before 

 he learned that the heart of French draft-horse 

 production, aside from the Boulonnais district, was 

 the Perche, and at once pointed out the absurdity 

 of the word "Norman" in connection with the 

 French draft types, changing the title of the pro- 

 posed stud book to "Percheron-Norman," retaining 

 the latter word only as a tub to the whale of 

 American usage. Subsequently this meaningless 

 hyphenated compromise was abandoned entirely, and 

 the Percheron Stud Book of America was builded 

 from the crude foundations thus laid in the late 

 seventies. 



Mr. SANDERS was ever a devotee of the turf, 

 and was, during this same period, President of the 

 Chicago Jockey and Trotting Club, which owned 

 and operated a well-appointed course upon ground 

 just west of the southern extension of Garfield 

 Park, Chicago. He was also elected President of 

 the Chicago Fair Association, which held great 

 live-stock shows on this property in 1880 and 

 1881. While all this was going on the business of 

 the "National Live Stock Journal" had been growing 

 rapidly. Its patronage came very largely from the 

 editor's personal friends and fellow-workers in the 



