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Stallion Orangiste 29606 for ^5500, and a month later sold Pour- 

 Quoi-Pas 27248 for $7000. In December, 1905, this same firm 

 sold the stallion Rosenberg, grand-champion Percheron at the 

 International Live-Stock Exposition, for ;^8ooo, the highest price 

 up to that time paid for a draft stallion in America. At the 1909 

 International, W. S. Corsa of Illinois purchased the champion 

 Percheron stallion of the show, Carnot 66666, from Crouch and Son 

 of Indiana for ^10,000, and in 19 16 Mr. Corsa sold a half interest 

 in this horse, at ten years of age, to R. G. Leeds of Indiana for 



Fig. 41. Judging the horses at the 190S show of La Societe Hippique 

 Percheronne. From photograph by the author 



$20,000. Helix 70340 (75752), champion stallion in 191 1 at the 

 International, shown by Taylor and Jones, was sold to W. C. Brown 

 of New York for $10,000. In 19 12 Crouch and Son exhibited 

 at the International the stallion Imprecation 79304 (79214), 

 champion that year as well as in 191 1, which they sold for 

 $10,500 during the show. 



Percheron geldings are great favorites in the horse market, and 

 many very high-class ones are sold. At the 1905 International 

 Exposition the six-horse teams of geldings exhibited by Armour 

 and Company and the Pabst Brewing Company caused universal 

 admiration. George, owned by Pabst, the first-prize gelding of the 

 1904 exposition, weighed when shown 2140 pounds. In 1905 

 the Pabst Brewing Company purchased a pair of geldings on the 

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