422 A HISTORY OF THE PERCHEEON HORSE 



the number of foals produced was very small in 

 proportion to the number of mares owned. Lack of 

 success in producing and raising colts discouraged 

 Dr. Hartman, and he sold most of his mares before 

 1910. 



The steady importations of stallions and the 

 tendency of the men in charge continually to try 

 out new horses led to the use of more than 20 dif- 

 ferent stallions in the "Hartman stud, with the result 

 that none of them was given a thorough enough trial 

 to achieve any particular reputation. 



Dr. Hartman exhibited at the Ohio State Fair 

 and at the International with fair success. Con- 

 siderable newspaper advertising was instituted and 

 the Percheron importing and breeding operations 

 carried on by the Hartman Stock Farm did much 

 to increase the popularity of Percherons, besides 

 leading to the direct distribution of a large number 

 of valuable mares and stallions. 



The mare Folichonne, already referred to as one 

 of the most valuable brood mares in the Gregory 

 Farm stud, was one of those imported by the Hart- 

 man Stock Farm, and many other mares that have 

 done much good in other breeding establishments 

 were imported or bred by this stud. "While the 

 experiment was a failure from a financial standpoint 

 so far as Dr. Hartman was concerned, it nevertheless 

 benefited Percheron breeding interests in the United 

 States in a material degree. 



C. M. Jones, Plain City, 0., the oldest living 

 Percheron breeder in the United States, whose opera- 



