PAKT III. 



INFORMATION TO STRANGERS WISHING TO BUY 

 PERCHERON HORSES. 



Although I consider Perche an exceptional country for 

 the production of good horses, I attribute to its air, to its 

 water, and to the nutritiveness of its grasses, the admirable 

 qualities of the animals bred therein. I am convinced that 

 the excellent care, the wise management, exempt alike 

 from pampering indulgence and from the harsh treatment 

 which irritate the disposition, and from which the good 

 teacher never departs in his intercourse with his pupils, 

 contribute a great deal to the success of the result. Start- 

 ing from this point, I think I can assert that with care 

 and this identical management, horses can be elsewhere 

 produced that Perche would not disown. It is, then, the 

 recapitulation of this method and management which 

 should be presented to the stranger desirous of raising 

 the Percheron horse. I will tell him what the cultivator 

 of this country does, and in doing like him, provided he 

 make the attempt in a high, healthy district, a district 

 with a sharp air and one often refreshed by winds, present- 

 ing some analogy to the rugged hills and the excellent 

 grassy valleys of Perche, no doubt he will arrive at magnif- 

 icent results. Several suppositions may be presented to 

 the consideration of the stranger wishing to raise Perche- 

 ron horses. Either he should buy in Perche a mare in 

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