Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-06-29
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pose horse or one for draught, shall be
priced"
My own experience with the Percheron
goes back to the year 1865, when nv friend
and neiQ b bor Mr.. Slaughter w. Ficklen,
of Albemarle county. Va, imported two
know these mares worked year in and year
out, in rough and billy Piedmont country.
with soil and climate sin liar to that of East
Tennessee, in the plough and wagon, sing.
ly to the heaviest kind of corn plan
roughly treated and roughly cared for, and
yet undergoing in good condition n amount
of work that would have killed one of
our ordinary firm animals. | have brei
our common mares to these horses and nv
experience cOinc des exactly with that of
every one who has written on the subject
The offspring inherits the best qualities of
the race, the sire, nine times out of ten,
perpetuates his characteristics in the fo Il
The alt-breed or grade, when good mares
are used, has generally the grey sh color
the short, thick and we'll set neck. the
splendid quarters, and round short band
and, above all, the weight in the collar of
the Percheron, and closely approaches him
in sizA. Tire and again have | noticed
noble teams of these animals, three draw
| ing with the greatest ease and quickness
our heaviest four hourse plows and four.
with equal ease, wagon loaded with
weight that would have bid defiance to the
| utmost efforts of six ordinary animals.
| And be it remem bered that these results
are not isolated cases AS remarked, nv
| experience is the experience of every
observer. The colts (grades) from a
! Percheron importation gave such
unbound satisfaction in Ohio-belng
very Uniform in build, so gentl, and
tractabe, yet spirited add active, so hardy
and easily kept-that they determined to
secure more of the same breed" Similar
reports 90 from wherever the breed has
| been introduced.
The recent Introduction of t. is race into
| East Tennessee | regard as an event of the
greatest agricultu al i'm portance and
one which entities the judgment and
enterprise of Colonies Martin and Nc
| Chez to the highest consideration and
credit. The thanks of the farmers of our
section are certainly due to these gentle
men 1t is an introduction that meetsl a
want felt and admittedly our most pro
gressive agrlcuiturlsts one engendered OF
our changed and still changing condition of
affairs. In the slow ard slip-shod ante
beltum days we required an animal that
would endure the neg lect Of the owner and
the cruel treatment of the negro driver,
and we accordingly valued the mule Now,
when the majority of East Tennessee
farmers feed and care for and work
their own farm stock. an entirely
different annual is demanded. And the
Percheron-a horse that will draw q
plough or wagon 1f double the weight 200
yards while our ordinary farm horse or
mule s draw ng either athe one or the
other 100 yards, and draw it with greater
ease andwith less wesr and tear, and on
the same rstions and treatment,-is the
amin that fully SUPPLIES this demand We
Can no longer afford slow teams or slow
drivers, in truth slow farming. When
this fact is fully realized the days of the
tortoise horse and creeping mule are num-
bered, and the general use of the Per
cheron will then be Indicative, in more
senses than one. of real aud substantial
agricultural progress.
i NJ MCRRYDE