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Successful farmers and stock men have come to 

 understand that it is unsafe and does not pay to breed 

 their mares to any kind of grades when they can get 

 the service of a pure bred Percheron. The get of 

 the pure bred sells for two or three times as much as 

 that of a grade stallion. At the best, a grade can 

 beget but an ordinary colt, and in most instances they 

 breed back along their line instead of getting such 

 colts as make the horses which buyers are constantly 

 and persistently seeking after. Thousands of colts 

 got by grades are compelled to hunt for buyers of 

 their stock, while the owners of colts got by pure bred 

 Percherons are hunted out by the buyers, up and 

 down, the country over. 



Sixth— Tho. pure bred Percheron foal is smaller 

 than that of any grade stallion, and is a wonderful 

 phenomenon of nature. The popular fear of disaster 

 in breeding small mares to large pure bred stallions 

 is unfounded, as has been fully demonstrated. The 

 results of such breeding must be seen in the young 

 foals in order to be fully understood and appreciated. 



Seventh. — Longevity of race and prepotency in old 

 age is one of their confirmed and assured qualities. 



Eighth. — One of the strong points in favor of the 

 pure bred Percheron that commends them so strongly 

 to the public is their soundness and immunity from 

 many of the diseases common among other breeds and 

 domestic horses. In breeding to the Percherons, by 

 reason of their superior constitutions, intelligence and 

 amiability, many of the bad points which exist in 

 common stock are overcome and counteracted, such as 

 spavin, ring bone, and many other defects, and above 

 all, the common infirmities and dangers owing to 

 vicious temper and uncertainty of disposition. 



