CHAPTER XIII. 



DISTKIBUTION AND STATISTICS OF PRODUC- 

 TION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



The most accurate guide to the distribution of 

 Percherons in the United States, so far as purebred 

 breeding stock is concerned, is believed to be found 

 in an analysis of the registrations made in the Per- 

 cheron Society of America year by year. While this 

 gives only the number of horses recorded from each 

 state during the year under consideration, it affords 

 accurate knowledge as to the distribution of pure- 

 bred mares throughout the United States, and it is 

 a matter of record in the reports of the stallion en- 

 rollment boards that the Pereheron stallions are dis- 

 tributed in practically the same proportion. 



The Pereheron Society of America recorded 9,044 

 Percherons during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 

 1916 ; all but 140 of these were American-bred. Illi- 

 nois, which has occupied front rank in Pereheron 

 breeding since the beginning, stood first with 2,014 

 head, or 22.27 percent of the total. Iowa, which from 

 earliest days has followed closely after Illinois, 

 ranked second with 1,772 registrations, or 19.59 

 percent of the total. Ohio, the state to which the 

 first Percherons were imported, was third with 747 

 registrations, or 8.26 percent of the total. Kansas, 



476 



