16 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
About March 1, 1911 the Percheron Society of America 
took over all the books, records and business rights of the 
Percheron Registry Company, issuing to each of the 
206 members of the Percheron Registry Company one 
share of stock in the Percheron Society of America. The 
Percheron Society also recognized as registered ‘horses 
the animals recorded by the Percheron Registry Com- 
pany. The produce of animals with Percheron Registry 
certificates are not accepted for record, however, until 
the certificates for such animals are renumbered, rewritten 
and placed in shape for republication. - This rule involves 
only those Percheron stallions bred to pure-bred mares. 
Practically all of the animals that were recorded in the 
Percheron Registry Company that had any produce have 
already been renumbered in the Percheron Society and 
most of their pedigrees have been rewritten. The present 
Percheron Society of America has more than 6700 mem- 
bers and paid in capital stock in excess of .$70,000. 
Literature. — Charles Du Hays, The Percheron Horse, New 
York (1868). 
Frencu Drarr Horses. Figs. 1, 2. 
By W. L. Carlyle 
8. The northern part of France has been particularly 
fertile in the production of high-class horses of various 
types. This has been due in part to the character of 
the soil and climate and to the food on which they 
have been fed, and in part also to the taste and tem- 
perament of the people in this section. In addition to 
the Percheron and Demi-sang Normand, or French Coach 
horse, there have been developed in this region several 
