. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 96 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE breeds, states i that the nearly perfect skull of a prehistoric horse excavated in the Seine valley, in 1868, very closely resembled a Percheron skull. There has been a variety of opinion in France re- garding the origin of the breed, but in no case have we specific and substantial information. All is based on theory. Probably the. Fig. 31. A map of northwestern France, the shaded parts indicating the Percheron country, as well as the home of the Nivernais horse and the Poitiers ass opinion of the veterinarian M. Gautie
. Types and breeds of farm animals. Livestock. 96 THE HORSE, ASS, AND MULE breeds, states i that the nearly perfect skull of a prehistoric horse excavated in the Seine valley, in 1868, very closely resembled a Percheron skull. There has been a variety of opinion in France re- garding the origin of the breed, but in no case have we specific and substantial information. All is based on theory. Probably the. Fig. 31. A map of northwestern France, the shaded parts indicating the Percheron country, as well as the home of the Nivernais horse and the Poitiers ass opinion of the veterinarian M. Gautier, as quoted by Sanders and Dinsmore,2 is about right. Speaking at a congress of farmers, held in 1843 at Mortagne, this Frenchman is credited with the following: Every man who has up to this time written on French and foreign breeds says that the Percheron is of Brittany origin. As proof, nothing. Each writer, m consulting his predecessor, has reproduced the same opinion. One writer ^ L'origine des races francaises de chevaux, Vol. Ill, p. 95. ^ A. H. Sanders and Wayne Dinsmore, A History of the Percheron Horse. Chicago, 1917. Digitized by Microsoft®. 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 Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939. Boston, New York, Ginn
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