Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-05-07


would supplied they required without any
Compensation be settled by committee of landowners
D,abuftajcS)
stated that the Algerian bred horses that quiet
pice drill Africa become quite unmanageable the diff
food and climate of France. There only government
breeding stud France Pompadour LmOusn, which has
e-estabshed the purpose breeding Arab and Anglo
Arab thoroughbred stations sixty
The es used France about number OF these the
about thousand Those intended for getting saddle
horses selected after public trial The bloodses tested
galop flat course the hafbreds nd-a-ha
mile a saddle in harness. gaop
mile quarter with eight At Caen recently in the
hundred horses rising years old put through
these trials and the bought hundred and ffsx
GAS test of the merit of stations nothing can be more fall
acous than these trials but they and interest the Norman
breeders, and that is a matter of some importance.
Besides the government stations, there hundred
the hands private individuals which have been passed. and
ceived certificate public officials The stock of good se
considered sufficient the other few thousand the hands of
peasant every degree shape
On the whole the efforts of successive French to inn
prove breeds riding horses have been fairly successful
considering that outside the army rides France and
therefore there school critics critical purchasers
The best horse.hows of Paris held in Normandy Caen
Faase and Aencon, the Brittany and Pcady stand
o Normandy horse-breeding districts.
Mr. Sidney states that above abridged Gbsons
Corn and Cattle OF France
NoRNANs.
Normandy originally possessed very distinct breeds
tribes of horses-both with high epuaonthe fit for
French and English knights the of heavy Nor
Nearly hundred years ago circa 1907 the Norman
breed having very much dceorated cOarsebed English
stations imported but without satisfactory effect The Prince
Lambesc Grant Ect master Of the hore) Louis XVII
imported for the the studam Of Pin (Which still in
cnce) twenty -four stations thoroughbred which produced
very decided improvement by infusion of blood into the Nor
mans eve presume that these stations produce
sires and webed hunter These English
stations be considered the grandses OF the
race
1890 suppressed England being
by long very inferior class the fall
empire the quality the horses Normandy
lowest ebb
"In 1880 when the improvement Of the horsesupp of France
consideration the Norman horses
makabe huge ROmannosed heads Since that date and par
tcua during reign emperor Louis Napoleon who
all the connected with horses the Nor
breed has been steadily improved by of English
thoroughbred and roadster res and for years past
have been bred Normandy which might have
passed. and pass, the produce Yorkshire.
The Percherons another breed of light grey ong cart
horses considerable reputation in England
animals slow tong draught although form quite the
of what judge OF Cydesdaes Sufos would select
But greatest altogether
the Peherons have any claim to be distinct breed tribe like
Sufolks The mentioned any work
before the present century M DevauX Loree says Pro-
Mo sful breeder in La Pche and enthusiastic adj
the Percheron declares that it dates the decree
establishing the stallion stud Bo that was the express
ion Of vant-tbe manufacture of man. not the result of soil and
that he could breed eeheron horses anywhere
fenced pastures and plenty Of bran Others have
described the PerchcrOn Otng carthorse with clean
limbs and Pcchcrons their
the poshorsc persons that years
they have dcterorated quaiespccy in the OF their
heads-and coarse Mares
imported England by thousands The Pehcron according
a writer Contemporaries originally bay
color but turned grey because the chief purchasers the
postmascrs gave higher price for grey horses.
THE LmousM
ridino horses of France the descend
already mentioned the best-ar
enduring Barb-but the pamy days this