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ranch is so fascinating in interest that it will be dealt 

 with in full at a later period. 



Progress in Indiana. — Indiana had no outstanding 

 leaders and the development of Percheron affairs in 

 that state was slow. S. Crumpacker and R. F. Small 

 of Westville and H. Hulman of Terre Haute were the 

 only. ones who bred more than 10 Percherons each 

 during the time considered. Mr. Crumpacker was 

 engaged in importing and raised some Percherons as 

 early as 1880. His operations were incidental to his 

 work as an importer in the firm of Crumpacker & 

 Winters. Mr. Small obtained his foundation stock 

 from this firm. Orphan Boy 1857, imported in 1882, 

 was his first important sire, and he later used a good 

 horse called Grandee 686 (743). Grandee was a black 

 son of the great Favori 1st, and was a good, big 

 horse, like most of those of this strain. He was 16 

 years old when he sired his first foals for Mr. Small, 

 but continued in service until he was 21 years of age. 

 Mr. Hulman did not begin until about 1886 or 1887. 

 He purchased his foundation stock from M. W. Dun- 

 ham. 



In the Sunflower State. — To the Yankee pioneer, 

 Henry Avery, Wakefield, Kans., goes the honor of 

 having bred the first Percherons in Kansas. He had 

 gone into the west when Indians were still plentiful 

 and had secured extensive land holdings near the 

 Eepublican River, some 12 or 15 miles northwest of 

 Fort Riley and a short distance west of where the 

 Kansas Agricultural College now stands. He liked 

 good horses, had a genuine love for drafters, and 



