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Dakota and a breeding farm In France. The latter serves as an 

 entrepot for rearing the horses before exportation to this continent 

 Another sale farm has been obtainec in Fremont, Nebraska, and 

 still another at Outremont, near Montreal. At the last named farm 

 there is one of the finest stables on the continent. Among the exhi- 

 bits at the Toronto Exhibition is a three-year-old Percheron stallion 

 weighing 1,900 pounds. He is black and of splendid shape, and has 

 carried off diplomas and first prizes at the Canada Central Fair at 

 Ottawa, at Montreal and at Sherbrooke. There i.s also a four-year- 

 old Percheron stallion, dajjple gray, which also carried off prizes at 

 tlie above exhibitions. He is of splendid action and might be called 

 a trotter, although he turns the scale at 1,600 pounds. The next is 

 a French four-year-old coach stallion of a beautiful outline and style. 

 He has already carried off a number of honors. Occupying another 

 stall is a three-year-old Norman-French coach stallion, which has 

 taken a prize in the carriage class. He is i6j,^ hands high and a 

 fine specimen of his kind, thoroughly sound in wind and limb and 

 shows good breeding. All these horses have pedigrees regularly 

 registered in the French stock books. The two French coach horses 

 shown were bought at the Government stud farms in France. Far- 

 mers and horse rearers cannot be too well posted as to the breeds of 

 stock to choose from, and this is an exhibit which deserves their 

 weighty consideration. Many admirers of the French horses talked 

 with Hon. L. Beaubien, the genial president of the company, who 

 was on the fair grounds yesterday. The manager, Mr. R. Auzias- 

 Turenne, is also in attendance. For the future the company intend 

 making Toronto one of their chief centres of business. — The Empire, 

 Toronto, Sept. 20, 1889. 



EXHIBFITON NOTICES. 



FRENCH PERCHERON AND NORMAND HORSES. 



In the horse stalls are four of the finest horses in the Show, of the 

 'ercheron and Normandy breed, imported from France, and exhi- 

 )ited by the " La Cie. du Haras National," 30 St. James street, Mont- 

 eal. This is a joint stock company, instituted in France in the year 

 888, and of semi-French and semi-Canadian formation, for the pur- 

 )ose of importing and selling French and Arabian horses, of the 

 est breeds, in Canada. The Hon. Louis Beaubien, who now rep re- 



