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grades come in for all use. From one-eight to one-fourth grades 

 make the best driving horses and have splendid action, are finely 

 developed, and have good style ; they are all well flanked down. 



" They have better feet than the Clydesdales, and last on our 

 pavements fully as well as any horses we have. 



" As to Clydesdales, they, as a general thing, are good feeders. 

 They have the very best bone, and are large, rugged horses. The 

 objection to them is they are light in the flank, and a little long in 

 the back, ship poorly, and draw up in the flank. They are a big 

 improvement over the common horse, and the next best thing to the 

 Normans. The Normans have good action and are fair roadsters, 

 and bring better prices than the other breeds. 



"I would advise every farmer to breed to French horses in preference 

 to any other, and I am surprised that farmers and breeders of horses 

 pay so little attention to the kind of horses they breed, when they 

 can breed Norman horses that will bring in the market when four to 

 five years old from $150 to $300 a head, I used to be prejudiced 

 against the French horses before I had handled them extensively, 

 but now I am convinced that for all purposes there is nothing equal 

 to the grade Norman." 



JAMES D. BECKETT, 



of No. 37 West Randolph street, Chicago, buys and sells about 2,500 

 horses annually. In war times he handled as high as 33,000 horses 

 in one year. He ssid : 



" I handle more French horses than of any other breed, but handle 

 all kinds extensively, including Clydesdales, English and Belgian. I 

 handle more French horses because they are sought after more than 

 the other breeds and command higher prices They are more com- 

 pactly built, with better flanks. Their feet are good, capital, — much 

 better than those of the Clydes. 



" Their prevailing color is grey, and they transmit it down to an 

 eighth blood, and where a pair of any other color will sell for $350, 

 if the color was grey they would sell for $400. 



** The French horses will last longer on our pavements than any 

 other breed. 



" The heaviest lumber manufacturers buy Normans exclusively for 

 hauling logs, have done so for years, and the Norman horses are the 

 only ones that have given them the long wear of years. Before they 



