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The Percheron Horse

by Charles Du Hays

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Production, Rearing, and Improvement of the Percheron Horse
  3. 3Part I — Greatness and Decline of the Percherons
  4. 4Chapter II — Sketch of the Percheron Race
  5. 5Chapter III — Origin of the Percheron
  6. 6Chapter IV — Modifications of the Percheron Race
  7. 7Chapter V — The First Modification, Due to Contact With the Brittan…
  8. 8Chapter VI — Conditions Under Which They Are Bred
  9. 9Chapter VII — Causes of the Degeneracy of the Percheron Horse
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Starting Point of This Degeneration
  11. 11Part II — Of the Means of Regenerating the Percheron Horse
  12. 12Chapter I — Regeneration of the Percheron Breed
  13. 13Chapter II — Regeneration of the Breed Through Itself, or by Selection
  14. 14Chapter III — Consanguinity
  15. 15Chapter IV — Ought the Gray Color of the Percheron to Be Inflexibly…
  16. 16Chapter V — Preserve Pure, and Without Intermixture, the Three Type…
  17. 17Chapter VI — Improvement of the Breed by Means of Foreign Crossings
  18. 18Chapter VII — The Arab Crossing
  19. 19Chapter VIII — The English Cross
  20. 20Chapter IX — Improvement by Means of the Stud-Book
  21. 21Recapitulation
  22. 22Part III — Information to Strangers Wishing to Buy Percheron Horses
  23. 23Chapter I — Food and Breeding
  24. 24Chapter II — Trade — Glance at the Most Celebrated Breeding Places
  25. 25Chapter III — Speed and Bottom of the Percheron Horse
  26. 26Chapter IV — Speed of the Percheron Horse
  27. 27Chapter V — Endurance of the Percheron Horse

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