Identifier: livestockcyclope00bake (find matches)
Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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ichresulted in the present admirable breed. The old Norman war horseswere heavy, bony, slow, but strong, and capable of enduring much hard-ship. They were admirably adapted for their day, since they were capa-ble of carrying a knight in his heavy armor. Ao-aln, it is asserted that the Norman horse is descended from a racethen peculiar to Brittainy, and used for draft, rather than for war. Anotherwriter asserts that the Percheron is descended from a remote crossbetween the Andalusian, mixed ^vith the Morocco barb, and again crossedupon the Norman, because, it is said, the Norman was too slow, and theAndalusian too light, for a knight in full armor. The old Norman horsesare said to have transmitted to the race their great bone and muscle,while the Arab, or Andalusian, or whatever the cross may have been, BREEDS OF HORSES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 127 added spirit, action, speed and bottom. Whatever may be the facts asto their origin, both the sub-famihes of the Norman-Percheron combine
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•j:izi: wiNxixc ii;):ci ii-;i;i:)M make—six years old.Spttjially phuloaiaplied for this work. the strength of the old Norman barb with something of the speed of theArabian, and are capable of carrying great weights and of drawing heavy 128 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. loads at a fair rate of speed. A pair of the lighter Perche horses (ciMledin France Diligence horses, from their use in drawing the coaches of thisname) are capable of going at a speed of seven or eight miles an hour. These horses may now by regarded as having become a fixed race, cap-able of reproducing itself perfectly, unchanged, and without deteriorationthrough generations, when pure sires are bred to pure dams. Bred toinferior mares, the stallion marks his impress wond^ifully upon the )iro-o-eny, and the pure mares also transmit their characteristics in the samevvouderful manner. V. The Percheron of To-Day. The Percheron makes a capital cross upon any of the large, roomymares of this count

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