Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — Horse Breeding in America. [ARTICLE]

Horse Breeding in America.

Fifteen million of Horses are now owned in America, and more than a million a year must be bred to keep up the supply. The largest portion of these are used for agricultural and heavy draft purposes, aud suoh horses bring from $175 to $.750 each. It would be impossible to breed them if it were not for the importation of Percberon horses. Five hundred stallions are now annually imported from France to the United Btatos. The immenso wealth they are adding to the nation will bo better understood when it • is known that the first cross of a Pereheron stallion with a native mare doubles the selling value of the colt when mature. Large numbers of Percheron stallions are exported from the United States by Canadian breeders to renew the old F'renoh blood so highly prized, and also to give quality, stylo and action to the large English Draft and Clydesdale stock which has been bred there so long. Nearly ono hundred Pereheron stallions have been sold to Canada during the past two years by M. W. Dunham, “Oaklawn Farm,” Wayno, Illinois, the greatest importer of the F'renoh race, who has imported from F'rance nearly 8,000 head. He now has on hand several hundred of the finest Perchorons to be found in France, nearly all recorded, -with their pedigrees, in the Peroheron u t”d Book of Franoe.