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who brought out the earlier Ohio stallions were not 

 men who had made any special study of the business. 

 The Perche, as such, was to them more or less a terra 

 incognita. They knew nothing of what had been 

 going on in that district for fifty years preceding 

 their visits. The buyers of Louis Napoleon and 

 other horses were not even in quest of horses. There 

 were no stud books. No pedigrees were obtained, 

 and none of these early buyers appears to have made 

 any effort to seek out the real fountain head of the 

 type that was destined to play such an important 

 part in the development of draft horse breeding in 

 the United States. In good time, however, this was 

 discovered and commonly recognized. 



Of the Missouri importation, consisting of two 

 stallions and one mare, no information can now be 

 secured further than that conveyed by the records. 

 In Illinois the case is far different, because on the 

 importation of Success and French Emperor by "W. 

 J. Edwards was raised by the late Mark'Wentworth 

 Dunham the most magnificent success ever achieved 

 by one man in the heavy horse business. 



A Profitable Business. — ^By this time the importa- 

 tion and sale of imported stallions had settled down 

 to the level and dignity of an established . trade 

 and prices ranged in this country between $2,000 and 

 $3,500. In France prices remained on about their 

 old scale. Among Dr. Marcus Brown's papers is a 

 memorandum showing that the five stallions he 

 bought in 1868 for Brown, Bigelow & Co., cost laid 

 down in Columbus, 0., an average of $578.68. One 



