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temperament, rusticity ; gentleness, and loyalty at work, at the same 

 time, giving more distinctness and fitness for agricultural work. 



By this means you will obtain a conformity, i. e., fixed breed, 

 genuine and thoroughly homogeneous, invariably reproducing its 

 own typical form. On the contrary, if you cross, indiscriminately, 

 this breed with others, the result will be uncertain, as the produce 

 will lack conformation, i. e., strength, fixity, and family appearance. 

 In other words, you will lose the indelible stamp of the breed. 



If you have specimens of the other breeds and wish to keep them, 

 always preserve them in the same way, homogeneous, breeding them 

 distinct, and raising them in localities as nearly as possible resem- 

 bling their native country. If you wish to give more style and finish 

 to the Percheron breed. If you wish to stamp it with a more showy 

 appearance or improve the gait, do not attempt to bring this about 

 by an infusion of thoroughbred blood, or any blood derived from it. 

 The Thorou-jhbred is too impressive, too sensitive, and too different 

 from the Percheron. Neither do you want to apply to the Norfolk Trot- 

 ter, for although the Norfolks are fine results, they are quite a recent 

 creation and therefore not at all a fixed breed. They do not invari- 

 ably reproduce themselves ; moreover, they are subject to the heredi- 

 tary defect of roaring. This disease seems inevitable, owing to their 

 conformation. Look only for improvement to the Oriental horse, 

 from which the Percheron horse is descended, as conclusively proven 

 by historical documents. 



There is ample evidence that from time to time A rab blood has 

 been infused into the Percheron breed. It is a well known and 

 positive fact that previous to 1789 M. Marquis of de Mallart — friend 

 of I. Prince of Lambese, Master of the House in France — obtained 

 Arab horses to serve on his estate at Coesme, near Belleme, and 

 that his grandson, another Marquis of Mallart, obtained in 1818 and 

 following year from the Marquis of Bonneval, Director of the National 

 Studs at Le Pin, the Arab stallions Gallipoli and Godolphin to stand 

 and serve on that same estate of Coesme. If you use the Arab, use 

 him pure and not cross-bred, as has been several times the case in 

 France. 



Although tli(2 real native place of the Aiab horse is in the neighbor- 

 hood of Aleppo, Bagdad, and Damascus, it is difficult to penetrate 

 and travel in those localities ; therefore the best plan is to go direct 

 to Constantinople, where are to be found some of the great Lords of 

 the Turkish Empire and eastern nobles, who, through disgrace or 



