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horses and of horses for armv remounts might well be met 
bv having recourse to the Percherons and Anglo-Xormans of 
France. 
The Brittanv draught horses resemble the Percherons pretty 
closelv, and are similarly bred. Their origin is also Oriental ; 
and between Perche and the north, where the best class of 
Brittanv draught horses are reared, a constant interchange of 
blood has been soins on. Brittanv rears but verv few of the 
manv horses it breeds, the majoritv going when quite young 
to Normandy, where, Mr. Richardson says, the greys are known 
as Percherons and the bays as Xormans. Xorlolk trotter-sires 
have been used treelv in some parts of Brittany during recent 
years, and the specimens we saw of this cross were hardy, useful- 
looking, light horses, well adapted for " vans " and such work. 
The Norfolk Cob sires have evidently been very successful in 
raising horses to suit French ideas, for during the past few years 
the demand for stallions of this tvpe has increased greatly. At 
La Baude, in Cher, a local breeding-stud for draught horses was 
stablished in 1874, the sires selected being of the tvpe of the 
-\orfolk Cob. In Nivemais, the Society of Agriculture has 
been making endeavours to improve the hx^al breed of horses — 
and have met with gratifying success — by the introduction, at high 
prices, of choice black Percheron sires, of which a few very good 
heavy specimens were shown. 
Some of the heaviest draught horses in the French classes 
belonjed to the Boulonnais race, which has its headquarters in 
the Pas de Calais, and which is not unknown in England. As a 
j mle, the breed is thicker and more power+ul than the Percherons, 
I and better suited for the heavier varieties of work. Their hind- 
quarters are better formed than those of the Percheron, while 
their legs are shorter and stronger ; but their action is slower, 
general appearance less gay, and quality coarser. Withal, how- 
1 ever, they seem to be a thoroughly profitable class of draught 
horses. They stand over 16 hands, are usually dark grey or 
black in colour, strongly built, short thick neck, good chest, 
, shoulders strong but not sufficientlv sloped, and bone rather 
round. They enjoy a good name for their working powers, and 
I they appear worthv of it. 
j The special prize of an " Object of Art," offered by the Agri- 
coltoral Society of France, for the best group of " heavy-draught"' 
i {gros trait) horses, was awarded to a group of verv fine Boulon- 
nais horses shown by M. Modesse-Berquet, of Any-Nlartin-Rieux, 
j Aisne. In the contest for the latter premium, Mr. Lawrence 
' Drew, Merryton, Scotland, exhibited oue of the finest groups of 
British heavy-draught horses that has ever been placed before 
Judges: and, with all due respect to French ideas, we cannot 
