282 A TREATISE ON HORSE-BREEDING. 



entertained by them, and great confusion re- 

 sulted. Some importers brought what they 

 called Percherons, others brought Normans, 

 some brought Percheron-Normans, and still 

 others brought Norman-Percherons, but there 

 were very few who claim to have imported 

 Boulonnais, although many of the latter were 

 brought over by the earlier importers. This 

 confusion and lack of information resulted 

 finally in much angry controversy, incited 

 chiefly by rivalries among interested parties. 



The first importations of draft horses from 

 France that attracted anything like general at- 

 tention in this country were those brought to 

 Union and Pickaway counties, Ohio, in 1851, 

 and these were, by their importers, simply 

 called French horses. Another importation to 

 the same region followed in 1856, and yet an- 

 other in 1857; and they were also known only 

 as French horses. In 1865 J. H. Klippart, sec- 

 retary of the Ohio Board of Agriculture, went 

 to Europe, and these horses having become 

 very popular in his State, he made their origin 

 and history an especial object of study while in 

 France. On his return he submitted a report 

 to the Ohio State Board, in which he gave an 

 exhaustive account of the horses of France, and 

 stated that our so-called French horses were 

 Percherons. In 1853 Col. Charles Carroll, of 

 Baltimore, Md., imported from France a stal- 



