. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their and all diseases to which they are prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. 76 ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. It^M district in France. Volumes have been written respecting this horse, and various theories as to his origin and f'.evelopment have b
. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their and all diseases to which they are prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. 76 ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. It^M district in France. Volumes have been written respecting this horse, and various theories as to his origin and f'.evelopment have been advanced, by inter- ested partizans at times, and again by pure lovers of horses who pursued truth for truth's sake alone. One â writer insists that he is descended from what some call the primi- tive or natural horse, the pure blood Aral)itin, crossed with a stock of heavy draft horses existing in that section, but without historic mention, prior to the Crusades. He thinks that after the defeat of the Saracen â hief, Abderame, by Charles Martel, in Vouille, in which battle a host of 5aracens perished, the cavalry of the enemy. Oriental horses of marked haracter, true Arabs, fell into the hands of the French,â^thence many of these horses were broujjht b3^ their victorious masters to the districts of Normandy and La Perche. Here commixture of blood with a heavier horse of excellent quality folloAved, and the cross resulted in froducing the now celebrated Pex'cheron. The native race referred to is thought by some to have been the old "war horse of the Normansâheavy, bony and slowâgood for cavalry use during the da3'^8 of chivalrv, when the carrying of a knight and his armor required an animal of great strength and powers of endurance. Others think that it was a stock of horses then peculiar to Brittany and used for draft rather than for Avar. One author asserts that the Percheron is descended from a remote cross between the Andalusians (after their commixtur
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