INDEX.
- Arabian, The type horse, 51
- Good tempered, 60
- Cross imparts endurance, 59
- Qualities obtained from, 75
- Cross-breeds easy to raise, 61-63
- Disproportionately small legs, 63
- Labor at three years, 61
- Larger than their sires, 62-68
- Square trotters, 59
- Surest to turn out well, 62
- Stallions offer quick and sure means of improvement, 45
- Breeders, 13
- Temptation to sell, 8-22-27
- Breeding Centers, 92
- Breeding In-and-in fixes character, 18
- Systematic. Opposition of the Army, 73
- System of, 46-62
- Brittany Horse, 21-27
- Cattle, Charollaise breed, 72
- Cotentin breed, 37
- Maine breed, 90
- Percheron breed, 89
- Colts, Cost of rearing, 23
- Food of, 23-85
- Sale of at six months old, 23-84
- Sold to Beauce farmers, 24
- Troubled with strangles, 86
- Weaning, 85
- Worked at fifteen months, 23
- “Cross-bred Horse”, 54
- Crossing with the Thoroughbred, 55
- Eastern Blood imported, 18
- Stallions at Pin, 20
- Brought from the Crusades, 17-18
- English and Danish Stallions at Pin, 20
- English Horses, Spurious, 56
- In the Crimea and Italy, 54
- Too nervous for draft, 69
- English Thoroughbred, 39
- Care required in rearing, 61
- Cross successful if used with judgment, 64
- Discouraging results, 68
- Fractious and nervous, 61
- Introduced into France, 28
- Its Progeny heavy consumers, 68
- Possession tends to dissipation, 9
- The Horse of Fashion, 9
- Fairs, Improvement by means of, 72
- Forage Plants, 13
- Fillies, Treatment of, 87
- Horse Association of Perche, 31
- Improvement by foreign crossings, 48
- By Selection, 33-37
- By the Arab Cross, 51
- Means of, 32
- Preparation of land for, 49
- Preparation of a breed for, 49-51
- In-and-in breeding, 38
- Useful in establishing a family or breed, 39
- Intelligence of an Arabian, 58
- Of “Lapin”, 58
- Interbreeding, 38
- Land—thorough culture essential, 13
- Loads usual for English and French horses, 69
- Mares, Care of Brood, 23
- Mares, Never sell good, 34
- “Natural Horse”, 54
- Norfolk Stallion, Description, 55
- Perche, Department of—Geography, Topography, and Agricultural character, 11
- Effects of soil and climate on other animals, 88
- Horses exported annually from, 42
- Introduction of foreign mares, extensive since 1830, 27
- Loss of the best stock, 27-29-30
- Percheron Breeders’ character, 82
- Percheron Horse, Arabian Origin, 17
- Characteristics, 7-15-22
- Cared for by Women and Children, 8
- Color, 40
- Color—Gray the favorite, 41
- Color Non-essential, 43
- Coming in Fashion, 45
- Degeneracy, 26-28
- Demand for Export, 79
- Difficulty of finding horses free from Foreign blood, 28-30
- Docility, 8
- Efforts to stop the exodus of good stock, 29
- First among serviceable breeds, 10
- Feat of endurance, 99
- Food and Breeding, 83
- Freedom from Spavin, etc., 8
- Heavy Draft Type, how obtained, 47
- Height, 14
- List of exploits on the turf, 97
- Mares, little pastured, 12
- Modern modification of the breed, 20
- “Omnibus Type,” how obtained, 46
- Prices realized by the farmers, 23-25-26-29
- “Primitive Type”, 52
- Proof of an Ancient breed, 19
- Separation of the Sexes, 16
- Sold at Chartres, 26
- Speed and Bottom, 95
- Strength of the type, 22
- Three classes, 15-44
- “Primitive Horse”, 53
- Prizes, System of awards, 34
- Given for Size, and for trotting, 31
- Recapitulation, 75
- Sheep, Percheron breed, 90
- Soil, Influence of, 53
- Stallions, Brittany and others, brought into Perche, 30
- Not used before four years old, 36
- Quarter-blood Eng., preferable to full-blood, 76
- Stud-book, 35
- Strangers, Information for, 81
- Stud-Book, Improvement by means of, 71