The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-14
our HORSES ArD THEIR BREEDING.
PAPER NO TX.

OUR HORSES ANB THEIR BREEDING.
PAPER NO TX.
I have now finished writing upon
the trotting horse and wish to thank
the readers who have taken the pains
to say to me that they were well pleas.
ed with my humble efforts. One of
our most prominent stalIioneers show.
ed to me his approval OF my criticism
of the "Standard" by mailing me sew.
eral articles all running In the same
direction. Others have personally
told me of their appreciation. I desire
to thank, as am we'll aware that 1
have hurt others. This letter may
make me many enemies but my object
is to assist the farmers to see their own
way better.
I believe there Is more profit in
breeding draft horses than roadsters,
as they only need size and color, with
roundness to sell them.
1T is no use talking, it takes mere
feed to properly raise draft colt than
a roadster. but they mature year
q year sooner, aud can be bred and
worked year sooner.
Just at present the most popular
breeds of draft horses are the Percher.
on, Clydesdale, English Shire, Blgium
Draft and Suffolk Punch in the order
above named.
All of these are pure breeds and
"you pays your money and takes your
choice"
The result of the fifth top cross with
registered stations can be registered
in the different registers of America.
A mare that is the result of the
fourth top cross is as good for breeding
az registered mare, as when mated
with a registered stallion, her produce
can be registered.
Horse buyers have told me that
clean legged horses sell the best on
the market, while bald faced horses are
hard to cell.
Bay sells best, black next, dapple
gray third, then steel gray and sorrel.
I want to caution the Allen county
farmers who wish to grade their stock
up and sometime own registered
mare ef their own, that they cannot.do
so unless they breed to stations that
are registered in the different stud
books of America. All imported hor.
ses are not eligible. One of the most
popular imported sires in this county
| is not registered in the American stud
book for his breed; and he is no better
to grade up than any grade stallion.
If the stallion is eligible never fear
but what his keeper will register him,
and he will be only too glad to show
you his certificate of registration.
Don't let the great words Imported
from Blanktown" in Scotland, Eng.
lond or France fool you, but look for
his number in the American Stud
Book of his particular breed.
Again, in the French horses remem-
Der there is no such breed recognized
in France or America as the Norman
horse, therefore you cannot "grade
up" by breeding to a Norman, any
more than you can from.a stallion of
your own raising.
The Norman horses i'm this county
are splendid horses, and i'm all proba-
bility identical with the Percheron
breed, but as there is no Norman breed
it is useless to expect to grade up from
a so-called Norman.
In the years lS5l-6-7 importations of
draft horses were made from France to
Union county Ohio, and they were
simply called French horses.
In '65 J. Klippart went to France
and studied the origin of these horses,
and in bis report to the Ohio board OF
Agriculture he said the horses were
Percherons. In 1858 some horses were
landed in Baltimore, from France that
were called Percherons.
In 1868 Charlottesville, Va, received
some more that were called PercheroDs
In 1868 Hon. w. T. Walters, of Bal.
timore, Md, made an extensive i'm.
portation that wire called Percherons,
and he caused to be translated the
work called the "Percheron Horse"
by DuHuys. Master of the Horse to
Louis Napoleon.
These importations, this book and
the writings of Mr.. Klippart and Wal
tiers, fixed the name of Percheron on
these horses in the eastern and middle
States.
One of the stations brought to Ohio
in 1851, and called there a Percheron
Stallion was sold to E. Dillon & Co.,
of Normal, Illinois, in 1854. This was
the great Louis Napoleon so success
fully shown by them as q Norman
horse.
This firm vas located at Normal
and npmed their farm the Normal
Stock Farm, and wishing to boom their
business, aud so called this horse a
"Norman."
From 1868 to 1876 great many hor.
ses were imported from France, east
ern breeders calling them Percherons,
while Dillon and bis friends called
them Normans.
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