New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-02


his blood Nd his Aohou TO posterigi
Nov the points Of the peculiar breed hnowA as the
Percheron Morn ans are these: Frst they are con-
siderbH taller than the Cassdisn horses, among
which it il believed The Percherou blood il still TO be
found, though degenersted in stature from cold e.
posuIe and illu,sse. Their standard 10 probably
from fourteen and half 20 fifteen and half hands,
the latter hight, however, being M much above the
average, perhaps a. sixteen hands IL above that Of
ordinary horses. Secondly, they are very short in
| the saddle place, and comparatively long below;
Trey are well ribbed-up and round bsrreed instead
Of having the fat sides and sway backs which are
the most defective points Of many Of the Cansdsns;
they have not the heavy head and extremely short,
thick neck Of the old Norman horse, and many Of
the contrary, have the head shor with tie genuine
A. sbisn breadth Of brow and hollow Of the profile
between the eyes and nos:Is, which is often called
the basin face; nor are their heads thicker, espe
cialy st the setting. on place. nor the necss, which
are well arched and sufficiently long heavier or
more massive than corresponds we'll with the gene
raj stoItness Of their Frame Their legs are psrtc
ulsrly short from the knees and hooks downward;
nor, though heavily haired, have they such shaggy
fetlocls and feet as the larger Nofmans or Cana
dams, whils they have the uDyieldiog, iroa-ike
,inews and feet apparently unconscious Of disease,
for which the latter race are famous. An English
writer in The British Quarterly journal u AgrnSl-
tsre, speaking Of the general working horse Of Nor
mandy, rays: 1.-THE horses Of Normandy are CAPT
a. taI TO-, II ard scapSv faYa I have
"never seen such horte, st the collar, under the
"diisence, the post carriage, the cumbrou' and
"besvy voiture or cabriolet for one or two horses
"or the farm cart. They are enduring an ener.
"getic beyond descriptions with their necks cut TO
the bone, they finch not; they put forth al their
efforts at the voice Of the brutal driver at the
dreaded ,ouDd of his never-ceaaiug whip; they
"hsep their condition when other horses would die
ofneslect and hard treatment A better oross for
",ome Of our horses cannot be imagined than those
" Of Normandy provided they have not the ordi
"pary failing of too much length from the hocl
downward, ard heavy head" The two points
last named are precisely those which are entirely
got rid Of in the best s lie Of Percheron Normans,
which are as We have stated, those Of the Nor
mans meat deeply and thoroughly imbued with the
Arabian, or, TO speak more correctly, Barb blood Of
Apdslu,is. 1t is not easy to procure tho best and
sstest stations Of this breed, SIS they are bought up
BY the French Government for the diligence and
msil service, for which they are highly priced, and
in which they are constantly kept st pace varying
from five to nine miles an hour, over roads ard be.
hind loads which would speedily kill al Eosfsh or
American horse, without lOss Of health condition.
But there il no difficulty in obtaining the choicest
mares 1t comparatively low rates-mares being Lit
tie valued 70, cork in Fraoce. Mr.. Edward Har-
ris Of EonistCwn, N. j., Of whom We have pre-
viou,ly spoken, who has been at much pains to i'm
port fine borsss and mares Of this breed aud Tho
contributed valuable letter to the American editor
of Youast on the Hor.e, since published 10 Mr.. Her
berts book on "Tke Horse Of Amerisa," asserts
Of bis horse Diligence" that he has produced
above four hundred colts-foas that no has
never heard of ono fetching less than one hundred
dollars, and many much higher prices, aad shat he
las never heard of his having produced one worth
em colt or one that 10 spawned, curbed, rug.
boned, or has any Of those defects which render at
tery useless SO large number Of the 6Os bred cots
of the present day. Mr.. Harris procseds 70 recom-
mend the crossing of thoroughbred mares TO the
stations of this breed, end believes that from
salf-bI,d stallion of the Norman and thorough
bred mare. and ,ecoId thsrOush .bred mare, thu
finest possible stamp Of carrisge horse 10 Proeara-
bic; owning, however, that the attempt has not
been made, no Thoroughbred mares having been
stinted to hs horse. From this opinion Of his We
utterly dissent for reasons repeatedly laid down And
insisted on in the courte Of these papers. Bot we
are certain that the result he names would be
reached BY breeding the female offspring Of the best
Percheron Norman mares and thorough bred stall
lions, second time, to the thorough -bred stallion
becsuse in this cro.s the excess Of pure blood and
vital energy is on the side which it ought to oe
that 10 ,ay on the male side Sill believe tina.
tbs Norman stations will be found Of immense oeo-
eft in giving strength and size to the Morgan
mares the Canadian mares, and the ordinary Ame
ricsn three OF four psrts- bred country mares be
cause the purity Of his blood, if no. 10 excess OF
theirs, ia fully On equality with il, and from Sue
extreme age and concentration Of it, it is infinitely
more certain Of transmission than theirs, whscb is
the rstult Of recent and various haphszard cross
iDe. The propensity Of these Nomans to breed
larger than themselves is not 10 be lost sight Of 1t
IL undoubtedly to be traced to their remote descerl
from the gigantic Norman warhorse, ard, Kept
down in themselves, fret by the Gross Of the low
sized ADdslu,ians, and sfterward, BY lops course
Of In breeding, breaks out at Ones when they are
intermiIed with other breeds.
We cannot elOse this, cur last paper, vita
out stating our belief that, in the present state