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best feeds that can be used. Combined with a little 

 wheat bran oats is especially desirable for feeding 

 during hot weather. During the winter corn may 

 be used extensively, especialy for mature work ani- 

 mals. Kafir, milo, and feterita make excellent feeds, 

 but, like com, they serve best in the ration during 

 the cold months. Almost any of the good, clean, 

 well-cured grass hays, such as Bermuda, Johnson 

 grass, Sudan grass, sorghum, or prairie hay serves 

 well as roughage. Legume hay, especially alfalfa, 

 is also often fed as a part of the roughage with good 

 results. 



"The South needs more Percheron horses. But 

 here let it be said that a kind vastly different from 

 the majority that has been sold here is needed. The 

 southern states have been a dumping ground for 

 inferior, unsound stallions that have been driven 

 from the northern states as a result of the opera- 

 tion in those states of stallion license laws. The 

 farmers of the southern states must awake to this 

 fact, exercise better judgment in purchasing stal- 

 lions, and, if necessary, have laws enacted for their 

 protection. A few inferior, unsound stallions can do 

 more damage in a short time to the progress of the 

 breed than several good stallions can overcome in 

 many years. Percheron horses that are typical of 

 the breed are sound and of good conformation, qual- 

 ity, style, and action. Such horses will pave the way 

 for the breed's more rapid progress and greater 

 popularity in the south as nothing else will." 



Prof. Milton P. Jamagin of the Georgia State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture says: 



' ' In 1906 we began shipping grade Percheron mares 

 from the middle west to Tennessee. Up to that time 

 there had been strenuous objection in the south to 

 any of the draft breeds, and the first mares which 



