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country of Ohio, bought from FuUington, Phellis 

 & Co. the five-year-old gray Duke of Normandy 168, 

 locally known as John Sheridan. One year later 

 Mr. Bland, sold this stallion, -which was of the dili- 

 gence type and weighed not more than 1,600 pounds 

 at full maturity, to A. "W. Cook, Charles City, la., 

 who kept him until 1874 and then sold him to Jacob 

 Erb & Co. of Ames. Pride of Perche 382, imported 

 by the Watkins federation of Ohio, reached the 

 Iowa Agricultural College this same year. John 

 Sheridan was not long destined for his work in Story 

 county, his death following in August of the same 

 season in which he was taken there. 



Across the Continent. — The year 1870 saw the 

 hub of the country's draft horse importing and 

 breeding industry pass westward to Illinois, where 

 it has ever since remained. Kansas received its first 

 direct importation from France in the gray stallion 

 Napoleon 736, imported by M. J. Parrott, Leaven- 

 worth, but fated not long to be retained in the Sun- 

 flower state. In 1872 Napoleon was sold to W. C. 

 Meyer, the pioneer breeder of the Pacific slope, who 

 in that year took his second lot over the Eocky 

 Mountains. Mr. Meyer's first purchase, made in 

 this year of 1870, included the stallion White Prince 

 496, Doll 541 (by the Baker Horse 21 out of old Doll 

 540, imported in 1857) and some grade mares with 

 three crosses of imported blood in their veins. From 

 these grade mares he was able in 1878 under the 

 new top-cross rule to register the fillies Jane 812 and 

 Josie 815, the former by Pride of Perche 380 and 



