The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-17

guine man, bnI expresses greater cuh1id0hcs than
ever, since As rs,ash last Diglt ffSm NsN York.
HnroM.
The PercAerSz<Nsrinan Haerse.
In my brief Northwessernl tozit. the present
summer. yisitsd The stablea Of The great Im-
porter Of blood d-horses, Mr.. A.. w. Dunham, ri
Wayne, ILL.,. Outage codhy3
was much pleased win tfe man, and quite
fell In love Win. The bofsta III! DmhSm ID q
frank, uddy -visaged, bluG, hearty sor, Of q man,
quiet and unptesendihe, b&si etidehtly wide
awake and keen - briar One feels ct hons
with him from the start. There Is no nonsense
about him. He is aR enthasiAse an Nh business,
but his enthusiasm igemnenilypsactieal
He has studied the literature Of his subject
thoroughly, and for many years visited annually
the bess st1bies ii Edf6p making nh ptrc4iilslls
in person, paying alwaysin yssh.
One can easily form come estimate Of the ex-
tent Of his operations, from The fact that he was
expecting some eighty blood-horsa in one con-
signment, and thai the priGH range from two
hundred and my TO three lhl,uAnd dollars. His
list of sales since August 1914, Of l-blood and
gEadod animals, amounts 70 over eco lots, Of
which nearly 100 were imported stallionA
These Ales, (in lots Of /, 3 8, and more, I'll the
way up to 10jhxvs guus -int5 swsusy -zx States
and TerrissEins bssidss Oaasaa aaa New Bruns-
wick OF these, Hichig.n, Iowa. Illinois, Wiz
eohsin' and Ohio, IN the order named, have taken
the greatest numbefA
None Of the Southern Stases except TexASxp-
pear on the lit Yet these Il no reasonf Why
this noble blood should not p0urA into The H6uth.
On the cOntrafy, there are sttong reAScbA whyft
should. The Southern climate is more co6kel
nial 70 q horse Of French 4xtrAction 'deSSenSea
through . long line Of ilIusttious ancestsis non
an Arabian original The erchefo1, Mr.. Dur
ham thinks, Is pure Arab. = II isweif known,,'
he says that after the defeat Of the fanIons
Safacen chief; AbderAme, bT charles 1lartsl, On
the plains Of VouiIle. the mAsni1csat' casSasyof
the enemy teil into the HANDS Of the vicsors GSd
the horses upon which they were mounted were
like themselves from the Est. In the division
Of the spofh . large numhsr fell 10 tie men Oa
La Perche, (hence PerchereQ( J Orleans and Nor
mandy. La Perche also fnrnished her contin-
gent of fghting men for the crusades," and cases
are on record Of aoblenea who bsuueAt ba6k
from Palestine ssversf staii1nns, which were used
and their progeny most carefully preserved"
This is one Of the cnFians compensations Of
history; may We not say, esen providenlial CON-
gave rs indirectly the Percileron Norman horae.
Now in the colder Northwest this Arab s,eed,
although wonderfully sound and hardy, h YET
sensitive to colds, and liablb 10 pneumonia In
The mid and genial' air otrthe South he wOnld
be more as hone, aad free from this liability.
There b another reason who this noble yace
should 60 South. Southerr gentle-folk have per-
haps bred too much for sfeed-not enough for
'dfAtght While NOT going TO an opposite ex-
ttenAe, il is desirable 10 Cad ;assmediam--
The Southern borss needs ais and 1yuR N wnll
as speed
There Is the LIGHT or sdballer type of Pefche-
ron. says Hf Dunham, sin which the sahk6ihe
temperament predominases. and which Il sxcln-
siveiy ussd forthe road apza saddle and thezsas
the DRAFT type. inwhich fAe elymphatic ismpen-
ment prevails, and which are used for dsAft
alone" a
Betweeahthese TWO thers h the urxsarDrArk.
combining the qualities Of both-the Dervoas
sanguine temperament Of the one, with increased
pAssicAl ldsvsaopmsss of tie osAer"
"WitR 1nshtyss l4iasesand we'll dllsaed,
eyes good sise. mild and expressive, fnrnhsad
broad and full, eAss shoft and 6ne, neck rather
short bat nicely illed out, withers usually hieh,
shDdldtfs' l6nk asd nicely alaped, brsust hs0Ad
ahd 6Sep ib0ssf weH 'fodssJedi croapn pnEsslzHsskl,
bco11aAd aAt ON tiis hesk vuissiea, aki1a atiaekea
hjsh, jeiniss shert ands EEm. ~ alwayss eeod,
skin very thin, and, haif Of the finest quality,
mama .h.,nAs - "a .,n..sai~, -. - IN ~
remafkAbIs st,enGth. - vSkof 'which doet n6t DE-
generate. to d e1nibfmstitn thatdoesnst exNId0s
jSlns' dociHsy, nisdnslG pltiskes,
h01mtys Greae kiiidnesA etcellsntA Aealth and haR-
dy and siasticrtsmpesAmtat. Itsmovsmenm are
rapid and easy; it possesses uncommom endnr.
ance, both when worked hard or wheh breed.
ioF unnsuAf tine, 20 ma5t,tain anyic1 - nhtskal
gsash. NPdssdass Ne 6sistiAs6saj eusaibsr sscp-
- yhst sata hssW lmls, and ispiss aAiissieeus-
trp 10 is pastisnlarly valued far isa ssaarknble
pseeocisy; prodncing more hy iss work q two
years old thas The coat q lla kseping BY in
nature u inkerts real sptness J6r lahor, and In
ifaiwaesEslAhae snds sadsm'shhjegka6 usssem
ezckaemsnt ThsiR szeesasse issapse y she ss1nlt
q aea Of kindnesa sasA ssstle hmilisrity Of
theedin whose hasds tbsy have besa hrsd.
Thar remaskahle souSaAss4 g ca.sh5 u Nj
ing jsAl6day anb6g ~ fabieedah nfsahas1stsa)
'hasss1h saaahllaAsdAy y4fsgu saiaseesus lsShnssd-
dhsffnr mante sbssrsaiess. snAns pAsaeau<a -
'riaE,eoaa cugband spesin, ars nel ssss knpwn
hy name h de cpnntry Nhese they azs Fsis1an
u = % - uidisd thtl tsaiIs - and AxsIinl-
'thf1l As1hai&1ons wSil& iiirR o. 3S5Ilhk d
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