264 A HISTORY OF THE PERCHERON HORSE 



J. H. Cowlishaw, Blakeville, la., W. P. Buswell, 

 Neponset, 111., F. M. Buhr, Knittle, la., Tim Payne, 

 Dunbar, Neb., D. E. Branham, Litchfield, Minn., and 

 numerous others. Those sold near Toulon, 111., and 

 Wyoming, 111., were most numerous and have favor- 

 ably influenced Percheron breeding in those sections. 

 Stallions were sold over a wide range of territory, 

 but few had any opportunity on purebred mares. As 

 a consequence they have achieved no special re- 

 nown, although they undoubtedly did much good in 

 improving the common horses of their time. Daniel 

 Dunham's career, which was distinctly that of a 

 breeder, was cut short by financial difficulties which 

 made it necessary to sell the Percherons in 1893 at 

 a great sacrifice. The dispersion of such a stud, 

 which had been carefully built up by a man whose 

 instincts were those of a creative breeder, was most 

 unfortunate and its sale at a time when all business 

 throughout the United States was depressed scat- 

 tered and dissipated the stock, as other breeders 

 were not in a position to purchase. 



The Dillons.— The Dillons, operating as Ellis Dil- 

 lon & Company and later as Dillon Bros., took fourth 

 place in number of animals bred during this period, 

 but in point of influence they ranked close to Mark W. 

 Dunham and W. L. EUwood. They were aggressive 

 importers, exhibitors and breeders, and but for their 

 adherence in part to a rival stud book organization 

 might have exerted more influence on Percheron af- 

 fairs than they did. They bred and raised 39 stal- 

 lions and 43 mares— Percherons— during this time 



