CHAPTER TEN 



FOREIGN HORSES OF VARIOUS KINDS 



FOR draught purposes there have been a great 

 many foreign horses brought here, and they have 

 served an excellent purpose. I suspect indeed 

 that if we had a record of the Percherons, Clydes- 

 dales, and Shire horse that have been brought into 

 America for the purpose of breeding heavy horses 

 for trucking, that the number would exceed the 

 Thoroughbreds that have been im orted for the 

 improvement of that special type. We had no 

 heavy horses of our own, and as there was a con- 

 stant demand for draught horses it was inevitable 

 that breeders should go for stock where that 

 stock had been brought to the highest perfection. 

 To us it seemed that the French horses, the Per- 

 cherons,* were best adapted for our use. And 



*Mr. Walters of Baltimore, began importing Percherons to America 

 in 1866 and kept it up for twenty years. He translated the work of 



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