486 A HISTORY OF THE PERCHEKON HORSE 



trated very largely, in 10 counties in the north-cen- 

 tral part of the state, contiguous to each other. 

 These 10 counties contributed more than 53 percent 

 of the Percherons recorded by Illinois breeders dur- 

 ing the year. The counties, in order of rank and 

 with the number of horses recorded, are as follows : 

 McLean, 186; LaSalle, 168; Iroquois, 125; Living- 

 ston, 109; Tazewell, 109; Fulton, 87; Ford, 82; Mc- 

 Donough, 76 ; Bureau, 70, and Woodford County, 62. 

 This represents a total of 1,074 registrations from 

 the 10 counties, out of 2,014 for the entire state. 



In Iowa the leading counties are more widely scat- 

 tered. The first, second, fourth, sixth, seventh and 

 tenth counties are all located in the southeastern 

 part of the state, practically contiguous to each 

 other, while the third county is in the central part 

 of the state, the fifth is in the northeast-central por- 

 tion, and the ninth is in the northwest corner. The 

 first 10 counties in Iowa contributed only 33.8 per- 

 cent of the registrations from the state. Another 

 fact which shows how much more widely Percherons 

 are scattered in Iowa than in Illinois is that they 

 were recorded from 98 out of the 99 counties in 

 Iowa during the year, but from only 81 out of the 

 102 counties in Illinois. The 10 leading Iowa coun^ 

 ties, with the number of registrations, are as follows : 

 Henry, 97; Keokuk, 75; Story, 66; Jefferson, 63; 

 Black Hawk, 63 ; Van Buren, 55 ; Johnson, 54 ; Page, 

 46; Cherokee, 43, and Lee, 37. 



In Ohio the 10 leading Percheron-producing coun- 

 ties, with the number of registrations from each dur- 



