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for the number of mares served, but also for their 

 fecundity, as evidenced by the attested lists of liv- 

 ing foals from the seasons' services. In 1834. Fer- 

 rand had three approved stallions, which served 101, 

 105 and 103 mares. The other stallioners were T. 

 Tardiveau, P. Tardiveau, Contangeau, Chevet (Mont- 

 doubleau), and Thereau. None of these stallions 

 served fewer than 80 mares, while some of them had 

 considerably more than a hundred. 



This part of The Perche has always been noted 

 as a mare country, although buyers — Americans, at 

 least — do not visit the centers like Montdoubleau, 

 Savigny-sur-Bray and Droue as frequently as for- 

 merly. Nevertheless, a great many colts from 

 that region get into the hands of the stallioners 

 around Nogent and are ultimately sold for export to 

 America. 



A Broad Constructive Policy Continued. — ^It might 

 be interesting, although somewhat wearisome, to 

 undertake to extend this sort of data further, but we 

 have already brought it down through the formative 

 period named so accurately by M. Fardouet. More- 

 over, this carries the French side of the narrative 

 well down towards the beginnings of the export trade 

 with the United States, and we must now be turning 

 our attention to our own side the Atlantic. Suffice 

 it to say, therefore, that this same system of bonuses 

 and inspection was continued in The Perche, and 

 with happy results. 



Speaking of the policy pursued during the years 

 succeeding those so fully covfered by the foregoing 



