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which founded an unimportant strain of trot- 

 ters, it is unlikely that he was at all large. It is 

 history also that Alexander's Norman was 

 never intended to be used as a getter of trotters. 

 He was more or less of the draft type, as draft 

 type went in these far back days, and it cannot 

 be said that his blood has been of material 

 benefit to the trotter as a breed. 



Percherons were imported into New Jersey in 

 1839 and later, but it was with the importation 

 in 1851 of Louis Napoleon into Union County, 

 Ohio, by Charles Fullington and Erastus Mar- 

 tin that the importation and breeding of Perche- 

 ron horses into this country really had its incep- 

 tion as a business. This celebrated stallion, 

 Louis Napoleon, weighed about 1,600 Ibs. at his 

 best, and after his purchase by the Dillons and 

 removal to McLean county, Illinois, began the 

 movement which has placed the Prairie State 

 in the very front rank among the common- 

 wealths in which draft horses are produced. 

 From the time of Louis Napoleon the develop- 

 ment of the Percheron breeding industry has 

 been easy and rapid. Matters of recent occur- 

 rence need not be detailed here. 



From the very first the Percheron has been 

 the favorite drafter of the American people. 

 There are probably three times as many Perche- 

 rons in the country today as there are of any 

 other one draft breed. The technical charges 



which have been made against the Percheron 

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