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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PRODUCTION, REARING, AND IMPROVEMENT OP THE PERCHERON HORSE 7 



PART FIRST. 

 GREATNESS AND DECLINE or THE PERCHERONS. 



CHAPTER I. Glance at Perche 11 



CHAPTER II. Sketch of the Percheron Race 14 



CHAPTER in. Origin of the Percheron 17 



CHAPTER IV. Modifications of the Percheron Race 20 



CHAPTER V. His first Modification due to contact with the Brittany Race.. 21 



CHAPTER VI. Conditions under which they are bred 23 



CHAPTER VII. Causes of the Degeneracy of the Percheron Horse 26 



CHAPTER VHI. Starting Point of this Degeneration > 28 



PART SECOND. 



OF THE MEANS OF REGENERATING THE PERCHERON HORSE 32 



CHAPTER I. Regeneration of the Percheron Breed 33 



CHAPTER II. Regeneration of the Breed through itself or by Selection. . . .33 



CHAPTER III. Consangiiinity ,_ ^, . . tj ^^ ... .38 



CHAPTER IV. Ought the gray coat of the Percheron to be inflexibly main- 

 tained? 40 



CHAPTER V. Preserve pure, and without Mixture the three Types of the 

 Percheron Race the Light Horse, the Draft-Horse, the 



Intermediate Horse 44 



CHAPTER VI. Improvement of the Breed by means of Foreign Crossings.. .48 



CHAPTER VII. The Arab Cross 51 



CHAPTER VHL The English Cross 64 



CHAPTER IX. Improvement by means of the Stud-book 71 



RECAPITULATION 75 



PART THIRD. 



INFORMATION TO STRANGERS WISHING TO BUY PERCHERON HORSES 81 



CHAPTER I. Food and Breeding 84 



CHAPTER H. Trade. Glance at the most celebrated Breeding Districts. . . 93 



CHAPTER III. Speed and Bottom of the Percheron Horse 95 



CHAPTER IV. Tests of Speed of the Percheron Horse 97 



CHAPTER V. Tests of Endurance of the Percheron Horse. . . 99 



