. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. 362 FUNDAMENTALS OF FARMING The Percheron. The native home of the Percheron breed is France, chiefly in the district of La Perche. The best Percherons of to-day embody all the desirable features that were described in the discussion of the draft-horse. The color is generally gray or blauk. Mature stallions usually. Fig. 211. Shire stallion. Courtesy of B. F. Hildebrand. weigh from seventeen hundred to twenty-one hundred pounds and mature females from fifteen hundred to nineteen hun- dred pounds. The breed is now widely dist
. Complete farmer's guide. Agriculture; Farm life. [from old catalog]. 362 FUNDAMENTALS OF FARMING The Percheron. The native home of the Percheron breed is France, chiefly in the district of La Perche. The best Percherons of to-day embody all the desirable features that were described in the discussion of the draft-horse. The color is generally gray or blauk. Mature stallions usually. Fig. 211. Shire stallion. Courtesy of B. F. Hildebrand. weigh from seventeen hundred to twenty-one hundred pounds and mature females from fifteen hundred to nineteen hun- dred pounds. The breed is now widely distributed in this country and is easily the leader of the draft breeds in popu- larity. A number of Percherons are owned in Texas and do well there. The Clydesdale. Scotland is the native home of this breed, where its development began in the early part of the eigh-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kyle, Edwin Jackson. [from old catalog]; Ellis, Alexander Caswell, 1871- [from old catalog] joint author. New York, Chicago [etc. ] C. Scribner's sons
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