Percheron-normans

These ure also frequently called Normans, or French horses, in the Western States. But by whatever name callei they are practically the same, and are distinguished by their uniformity in color, being nearly always grey. Occasionally a black, foan, jay or chestnut ia seen; but fully 00 jer cent. of them, both in this country and in France, whence they are imDorted, are grey. Those imported to ;his country will range in weight from 1,400 to 1,000 pounds. They usually nave good lieads, rather short necks, with rumps rather short and often a ;rifle drooping. The breed originated m La Perche, an ancient province of Trance, and importations from that country to the United States have been very large since 1852. Many mares have been imported, and a stud book is published in which the imported as well as the native purely-bred animáis are recorded, A few stallions have been imported from northern France and Belgium - some of them greys, but usually bays - that are rather larger and coarser than the Percherons, but these are not eligible to record in the