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Title: Island Home stud of Percheron horses : Island Home Stock Farm, Grosse Ile, Wayne Co., Mich. ... : Savage & Farnum, proprietors
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Savage & Farnum Island Home Stock Farm (Grosse Ile, Mich.)
Subjects: Island Home Stock Farm (Grosse Ile, Mich.) Horses Percheron horse Percheron horse Percheron horse
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : John F. Eby & Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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any of the Percheron-Norman horses, more of them than ofany other breed. There is more demand for them than for any other class. TheFrench horses are the best, have the best feet, last longer on New York pavements,and always give satisfaction. They are more compactly built, there is more work inthem, and they are better broken. They have better action than the other breeds. The Clydesdales are next thing to the Norman horses. They are very goodhorses. I have handled a good many of them, but there are not many of them on themarket nowadays. As to prices, anything in the way of a good blocky horse, builtlike a Norman, with good bone and good feet, will bring the same price as a Normanhorse. I would advise the farmers and breeders who are breeding horses with refer-ence to selling on the New York market, to breed from the Percheron-Norman horsesin preference to any other breed. C. & H. HAYMAN, Of 213 and 215 East Twenty-fourth street. New York city, were also seen. Mr. H.Hayman said:
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IIUmBERT 2649 (1195). (For pedigree see page 31.) PEKCHERON HORSES. 57 We handle about 2,000 horses a year, principally heavy draft. We handle allkinds of large horses raised in this country, including Clydesdales, the French horses,English and Belgian. We handle more of the Normans than of the others. Havemore demand for them tlian for the other breeds. The people like them better, and theybring higher prices than the other breeds. The Norman horses have the best feet, andlast belter on the New York pavements. They have the most endurance, and generallygive good satisfaction. The Norman horse is more easily broken, and is the best dispo-sitioned horse we have. Norman horses mature sooner, and are ready for the marketwhen much younger than those of other breeds. The Clydesdales are open made horses, not so compact and well-finished as theFrench horses. The Clydesdales are not only not so well shaped, but their feet are notso good as those of the Normans. We would advise the farmers an

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