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relations of the interior, frequently weighing from seventeen 

 hundred to two thousand pounds in high flesh, and producing 

 larger horses when crossed on our common stock. 



The Flemish Blood preponderating in the composition of 

 the former, they and their progeny partake more of the draft- 

 horse type, while south of the Seine and towards the interior 

 may be found a type which possesses nearly all of the good qual- 

 ities which have made the pure Percheron race so famous, mod- 

 ified by a reunion with its ancient kindred blood of Northern 

 France, which has given it greater size and other qualities which 

 justly entitle it to be called, par excellence, the farmer s horse." 



The Name Norman in America. This remarkable, 

 many-named breed of horses is destined to have a wonderful 

 effect on the horses of America, and a history would be most 

 defective which does not notice the introduction of this blood to 

 our country. The energy and enterprise of the Norman people led 

 them, as early as the 16th century, to explore the St. Lawrence 

 river, and to attempt to colonize its banks. They founded Quebec, 

 and as at that time they possessed the best horses in all Europe, 

 and were improving their lands at home, making it " one of the 

 best cultivated and most industrious provinces in France," it is 

 scarcely possible that they would not bring to their new colony 

 some of their choice horses. We have, in the Canadas, a breed 

 of horses which inherit marked characteristics of the French 

 horses called Normans, modified by climate, feed, and uses pe- 

 culiar to the more severe climate. The Pilots, the Royal 

 Georges, the St. Lawrences, the Copperbottoms, and the Mor- 

 gans, all show marked characteristics of the race as bred two 

 centuries ago in La Perche, then a part of Normandy. 



About the year 1816 a stallion came into Canada from 

 France, called European or McNitt horse. He was sire of the 

 Morse horse, and founder of the famous Norman family, of which 

 Lula, May Queen, and the Blackwoods have been especially 

 noted. " This horse is described as a large, dapple gray ; nearly 

 white, about sixteen hands high ; clean flat legs, beautiful head, 

 body long and round, back short, loins strong, lofty carriage, 

 strong, active, and a very fast trotter. Mr. James McNitt, of 



