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Possibly that is one reason they have not had greater success 

 up to this time. The horse that is now kept in Barre was 

 taken up into Franklin County first. It was thought that 

 the people of Franklin County were intelligent enough to see 

 the value of this horse and to use him. But the very con- 

 trary was the fact. (Laughter.) The horse was not treated 

 with any degree of fairness or respect in Franklin County, 

 and there are men here now before me who ouo^ht to blush 

 with shame for their conduct in regard to that horse in Frank- 

 lin County. I am very glad that the Society for the Promo- 

 tion of Agriculture took the horse away from Franklin 

 County and brought him into my district — I was going to 

 say. I mean, brought him to Barre, where I hope he will 

 be better appreciated and do the good to the people of this 

 region that we would have been so glad to have had him do 

 up in Franklin County. 



Now, if there is anybody who wants to ask me any ques- 

 tions, I am ready to answer them, if I can. 



Mr. Cragin. Is it not probable that the grades will really 

 be smaller? 



Secretary Russell. The grades of the Percheron are 

 undoubtedly smaller than the large horses that have been 

 brought here. I have seen a number of the colts of the 

 horses brought here by the Society, and they are very good 

 and very handsome colts. You have an opportunity to see 

 grade Percheron horses now in almost every lot of horses 

 brought into the city of Boston, or into any of our cities 

 where horses are brought from the West. The West is 

 being filled with the Percheron stock, and it gives a promise 

 to us in New England of a stock of valuable horses at less 

 expense, as I say, than breeding for ourselves. There is 

 Mr. Dunham of Wayne, 111., who has imported something 

 like 2,000 Percheron stallions, and they are spread all over 

 the Western States. Tliat is the reason why you see such 

 fine, game horses being brought here now, three or four 

 years old, from the West. We need have no fear now in 

 buying Western horses of getting old ones ; the thing to look 

 out for is not to buy too young a horse. When you look 

 into a horse's mouth now-a-days, look and see if he has got 

 a full mouth ; that is, if he is five years old. You are very 



