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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



The Percheron draft horse in America. — The introduc- 

 tion of French draft horses to America dates back as early 

 as i8x6 when a stalUon was taken to Quebec. About 

 1826 this horse was sold to James McNitt of Washington 

 county, New York, and was known throughout that 



FIG. 96.— PERCHERON STALUON "KLAQUEUR" 



region under the various names of European, Norman 

 and the McNitt Horse. His fame has been chiefly per- 

 petuated through this son, the Morse Horse, sire of 

 Alexander's Norman. In 1839 Edward Harris of Moores- 

 town. New Jersey, made two importations, the first con- 

 sisting of one stallion and two mares and the second of 

 two stallions. Diligence and Bonaparte, and two mares. 

 The first was unsuccessful, as the stallion died at sea, one 



