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his farm near Seville, 0., a short distance from Mr. 

 Kendeigh's. Capt. Bates also secured his foundation 

 stock, a stallion and 3 mares, from M. W. Dunham. 

 Bates' operations began in 1884 and continued till 

 1900. He achieved no special success, and the horses 

 he had were smaller than modem-type Percherons, 

 but he did aid in distributing and popularizing Per- 

 cherons in Ohio. Twelve colts of record we're raised 

 by 1890. His sales were chiefly local. 



E. J. Condit. — ^Located at Condit, Delaware Co., 

 0., E. J. Condit was one of the earliest of the Ohio 

 breeders. His operations were on a small scale. 

 Although he began in 1882, he had raised by 1890 

 only 11 colts of his own breeding. Thirty-nine colts 

 were bred and raised during the next decade. 



Iowa's Percheron Breeders. — ^A. W. Cook, Charles 

 City, la., has the honor of having been the first man 

 to take an imported Percheron to Iowa. This was 

 the stallion Duke of Normandy (John Sheridan) 168. 

 The horse was bought by Cook in 1869 from Peter 

 Bland, Milford Center, 0., where he had been in 

 service one year. Cook kept him till 1874, when he 

 sold him in March to Jacob Erb & Co., Ames, la., 

 where he died the following August. Mr. Cook also 

 has the honor of breeding the first Percheron of 

 record in Iowa. Three mares were bought by him 

 from B. H. Campbell of Illinois early in 1875. These 

 mares raised fillies foaled in 1876, and it is from 

 this date that Percheron breeding in Iowa starts. 



Only 6 American-bred Percherons were raised in 

 Iowa up to 1880, but operations expanded rapidly. 



