74 THE PERCHERON HORSE. 



bnt the English, by the infusion of his blood, destroys 

 the race of the south. This mode of crossing tends, then, 

 to cause our old French races to disappear. 



At the government studs, with elevated views, and with 

 a disinterestedness to which all delight in rendering full 

 justice and homage, they constantly encourage the crossings 

 in which they see the realization of their views. They offer 

 rewards, the most powerful of all incentives giving but 

 very modest prizes to the heavy horses, proscribing the 

 light coats, and reserving their encouragement for the 

 light horses of dark colors. 



As for the trade, it adopts but slightly the views of the 

 ai-my and the government stables, and it gives its money 

 to what has remained outside of these impulses. 



With the Stud-book we will be able, without giving 

 offence, to satisfy the army, the stud-stables, and the trade 

 the army and the stud-stables, which want the light, 

 stylish, dark-skinned horse ; the trade omnibuses, con- 

 sumption of the large cities, and agriculture which require 

 weight, vir^or, action, honesty, docility, and endurance. 



The Stud-book will furnish the means of finding types 

 fit for all services. But the breeders will divide them- 

 selves into two opposite parties. Those who wish the 

 dark-skinned, light horse, will breed him on the uplands 

 and in the more barren districts. The others, in the rich, 

 fertile, and abundant meadows, with a more nutritious 

 food, will apply themselves to the opposite type. 



Each will work in his own sphere ; the profits, losses, 

 successes, and failures, will soon be summed up, and 

 will soon become, on both sides, the object of minute com- 

 parisons. If the light horse produce the most profit, his 

 empire will soon extend over the domain of the heavy one. 



But if, on the day of reaction, it be recognized that this 

 crossing is incapable of ever making a good omnibus, a 

 good shaft, or a good team horse; if the crossed breed 

 be set aside for the primitive horse ; and if it come about 



