The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-04
PERCHERON HORSES
Editors Herald:

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As the time is fast approaching
when horse breeders are on the lool
out for stations for breeding purposes
for this year, I thought that few
quotations from the best authors OF
the question OF "What is the profit
able horse for farmers to raise, y
would be appreciated by some OF oul
Utah horsemep. " TWenty-nine
Percheron Norman Lo,ses travelled
under saddle on q course OF one mile
and q quarter, and their average was
minutes 12f seconds; and on q
course of two miles, with horses IN
harness, made on eight trials, an
average OF z minutes and Sc Sec
oDds."
To show their powers of endurance,
in 1864 a trial was made, in which a
7.year-oid mare travelled fifty-eight
miles and returned IN two days. The
first day the distance was made in 4
hours, l minute and 50 seconds. The
return next day was made D seconds
quicker.
1 have always combstted the ideas
of the ordinary farmer attempting to
raise fast tIoiters or running horces.
That must be left to the gentleman OF
leisure who has plenty of money,
and who breeds horses to crafty his
tastes, or as a recreation. But the
man who depends on the proceeds OF
his farm for living cannot afford any
such luxuries. There is q type OF
horses which farmers can breed to
profit, and that is the lively, quick
stepping, blocky. compact horse,
weighing from l 800 to 1900 pounds.
No man ever raised horse of that
decription at loss, and no farmer
ever raised such an animal that would
not readily sell at profit. 1t is the
little spindle-shsnked, lean, lsnky
animal that stays on the fsrmer's
hands and is always a drug on
the market. Then how shall
We breed the profitable horse?
Well, to breed anything in the shape
of a horse, you need good mare,
and the nearer the mare fills the bill
herself the better; but sny ordinary
good mare bred to a clesn.limbed,
sound footed, active, wide awake
Percheron Norman stallion will, niue
times out of ten, produce juet such
horse ss | have described, which Is
always saleable. There may be other
stations, when properly mated, that
will get equally as good foals as the
PercheTon Norman, but | hazard
in saying that, as q race, no
horses breed so true and stamp their
own character on their hsli-breed
with 80 much certainty; be-
cause they are themselves the pures:
race of horses known. Like begets
ike, or the likeness of some Of their
ancestors; and when, as in the case
Of the Percheron Norman race, the
ancestry for many generations has
been of the came character, the
chances for variation from this in
bred type In the progeny are very
small. This is a law which all ex-
perienced breeders know 10 be true.
1t forms the very keystone of all
improvements, and when breeders
July understand, as they ought,
hat breed is thoroughly established
which uniformly possesses the char.
lcteristics that make all work horses
and valuable, they will not
De slow to avail themselves of the use
II the services of stations of that
breed, instead OF patronizing miscel-
sneously bred horses, that have no |
liked type, and whose ancestry is a
mixture of everything from broncho |
o al English cart horse.
s LOVER OF A GOOD HORSE.