470 A HISTORY OP THE PERCHERON HORSE 



tration of Percheron horses with the National Live 

 Stock Records, decide upon the form in which the 

 stud books shall be published, and to promote, by 

 advertising, grants of special prizes, and in all other 

 proper ways, the breeding of Percheron horses in the 

 Dominion of Canada. The association has been 

 handicapped by lack of funds, and the breeders gen- 

 erally consider that the plan of organization fol- 

 lowed in the United States, where the breeders of 

 each kind of live stock control their own associa- 

 tions and attend to the registration and promotion 

 work, is much more effective in promoting breed 

 interests. 



Percheron Breeding in Canada. — While some Per- 

 cheron breeding had been done in the Dominion of 

 Canada during the '80 's, as noted in previous chap- 

 ters, relatively little progress was made by Perche- 

 rons until after 1900. The population of Canada 

 was, prior to that time, largely in the eastern part 

 of the Dominion, and was made up in large part of 

 settlers from Great Britain and Scotland, who, nat- 

 urally, brought their own breeds of horses with 

 them, had well settled preferences for the same, 

 and were further encouraged to handle the British 

 breeds rather than breeds drawn from the United 

 States or the continent by the aggressive action of 

 English and Scotch live stock men who employed 

 many of the Canadian stockmen as agents in fact, if 

 not in name, by furnishing numbers of animals on 

 easy terms, to be sold in Canada. This naturally 

 tied the Canadians by close business connections 



