566 A HISTORY OP THE PERCHEEON HORSE 



they would bring. While some thought they went 

 cheaply, and they did, they were dear too. 



"I believe that the horse business now has the 

 brightest future that it has known in many, many 

 years. With the importations cut off, American 

 dealers find that they can get just about what they 

 want at home, and perhaps somewhat cheaper. The 

 American farmer and breeder can raise them just as 

 good and big as they can in France if he will. We 

 have just as good feeds and much "more room to ex- 

 ercise them in. That is another place where the 

 young breeder makes a mistake — not giving enough 

 feed of the right kind, and not enough exercise. Feed 

 liberally of the right sort of feeds, such as oats, bran, 

 alfalfa, clover and such, and do not confine the horses 

 to a boxstall. ' ' 



Growing Purebred Percheron Fillies. — Prof. J. L. 

 Edmonds of the Illinois Agricultural Experiment 

 Station summarizes the results of careful study of 

 this subject at the University of Illinois farm in the 

 following language: 



"Well-bred young things deserve good feeding. 

 They demand it, if profits are duly considered. Their 

 growing-out should permit the fullest development 

 of inherent possibilities. 



' ' A record of the feed consumption and increase in 

 weight and height of a lot of 10 purebred Percheron 

 weanling fillies, foaled in 1914, was made at the Illi- 

 nois Experiment Station. These fillies were carried 

 through two winters and one summer — from late in 

 the fall of the year in which they were foaled until 

 they were ready to be turned on grass as two-year- 

 olds. 



' ' These fillies were fed home-grown rations. The 

 grain feeds were oats and corn, one-half of each by 



