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greatest brood mares of the breed. Mr. Miller was 

 one of the really constructive breeders of Percherons 

 and South Dakota suffered a loss beyond calculation 

 when he found it necessary to curtail his Percheron 

 breeding operations. 



J. J. Fry, James R. Warden, W. H. Miller, A. D. 

 McClelland & Son, Hugh McGlinchy and M. A. 

 Hommersand were other leading breeders in the 

 state. None of them bred a large number of Per- 

 cherons, but they produced horses much above the 

 average in the state, and by their work and their 

 exhibitions at local shows did much to raise the 

 standard of the draft horses in the state. 



Marked improvement in the common horses pro- 

 duced in South Dakota was effected during this 

 time, and the average selling* price of Dakota-bred 

 geldings advanced decidedly because of the wide- 

 spread distribution of Percheron sires, due largely 

 to the work of the small breeders. 



In Other States. — Michigan, Missouri, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Virginia and California were the eleventh, 

 twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth states 

 respectively in Percheron breeding. Colorado, Mon- 

 tana, Washington, New York, Oklahoma and Oregon 

 followed in the order named. Michigan bred 686 

 Percherons of record during this decade, and Ore- 

 gon, the last named, isi credited with 107 for the 

 same period. 



Michigan.— In Michigan Henry C. Waldron, A. A. 

 Palmer, C. Kern and John Hanchett were the leading 

 breeders. Mr. Hanchett in particular had some very 



