Show TOE THE HORSE WHAT AN enthusiastic UNITED STATES SENATOR SAYS OF HIM what Is said of the no riton origin morses used in paris charac of the Pere heron treat treatment men L of 0 tile alio florse senator palmer palmar of michla michigan ga n is an enthusiast thus last st on tho the Perch cron horse and quite a romance is connected with his love for it the first Perch crons he ever saw were painted ones and they formed a part of rosa bouhours Bouhe urs noted picture the horse fair which was hanain han ban izing aiu in mrs airs A T stewarts picture gallery at the tha time ile ho was so well lvell pleased pleas cil with them that lie investigated their character and went personally to france to pick out some for his farm lie ile has now nov sixty of these animals ranging in III valno vaine troia from 1000 to each and aud lie he is the prest dent of 0 the horse society of the united states while in france last year he made it a speech to the alic horse breeders bleeders Bre eders society of france and lie thinks minks that this horse is the best breed in the world for general purposes it is said lie he tile the horse for the farmer ile he can take it from ebe lumber wagon and use it in his carriage anti and I 1 have been told of instances where horses weighing 1700 pounds have gone a mile in three minutes they arc you yon know a distinct type and are supposed to have bave originated by it 1 cross of the arabian horse upon the ho heavy beavy horse of normandy Hor mandy they came from la cerebe a province about sixty miles square in III normandy kormandy here the breed has attained its greatest perfection and it is hers herg that the lie horse m gets its name ilow how the arabia got into france I 1 do not know but I 1 suppose pose it camo came there either cither through the sar abens when they were whipped by charles martel at tours or it may be that the counts of nogent do la kotron brought them back from palestine during the crusades but there is no doubt that the arab blood is i s there and in modern times after excellence and identity identify of type had been recognized this blood was re enforced from time to time from froin tho the royal and national stables of france the horses have been noted for years in france as good draft horses and they were about ton tell years ago age in general use in paris as omnibus horses at that time a team of them would take one of those heavy buses with seats both inside and on the root roof and filled with passengers and drag it along at the rate of eight miles an hour over the asphalt during my MV trip to paris last spring I 1 noticed a decided deterioration in the character of the horses so used and I 1 found that the Perche Perch roos erous had beep been replaced by others upon inquiry I 1 was told that the great demand for the horse in america bad risen the price from to from to thus making them too expensive tor omnibus use the horses now used in paris omnibuses omni buses are the Boulo nals the belgians and other heavy horses of oc normandy and flanders landers In which lune lian e no infiltration or of thoroughbred blood As to Perc herons there arc millions of dollars already invested in anibe alie united states and there is a gentleman named dunham w N ho he has made a fortune out of them he might be called the horse king ile he has had as many as Perc herons on his farm tit at one time ills his house on his hi farm at wayne forty miles milca from chicago is equal to Abbotts foi d in a its appointments it is lung with old tapestry and has many studies of rosa bonheur Don heur A great friendship exists between rosa rom bonheur Bonlie ur and mr dunham and ho he lately got an apache pony for her at her request and shipped it across the water tor for use in one of her paintings tell me something of the characteristics of the Pere beron horse the horses are generally of a dapple gray though thong li they may be black and now and then are bay or chestnut they are a heavy horse weighing 1 laoo GOO pounds and upward they have a fine action a fine skin fine coats great strength and great eli endurance durance for work and travel they are noted tor for their docility and and may bo be said to be born broken to tile the harness I 1 harnessed a team of them for the first ta time me one morning at 8 at 9 the they were draining dra dran iving fiig a plow as well as a well broken team and at were ere only a little awkward they plowed in the field all day only being rested now arid and then that their shoulders might not get gei sore me next day my farmer drove them into tile the city ol of detroit and though they had never seen a crowd of people an electric car a street car or steam car or the innumerable objects displayed iu in a business city they showed no fear only a kind of laudable curiosity they would smell of a steam engine anti and while I 1 was a blowing up stumps with dynamite this summer they stood by and watched the pieces blown up into the air without ut inore than raising their eyes at the bound I 1 attribute this tact fact to their recall able ini telli gence in III the first place and again to t the fact that these horses bomes had never never heard a cross word or been struck OF HORSES SEs what is your theory for the treatment 0 of horses now how should they be ba managed A horse should be treated just as you would r man mail or a boy my aly carriage bici fared better tit nt the hands bands of nn an old englishman taho knew nothing nol liing about a horse li orse than with any other driver I 1 hat bale 0 everead ever eve rhad lild bild when t this his man mail asked ed ne me I 1 how low lie he should treat them chevas he was told LO 10 treat them just as lie he did himself only a little better lie ile was methodical in his hia ways and lie he always fed the horses before ho he fed himself in warm weather he watered them whenever he got tho the chance and in winter three times a day inasmuch inch its as the horses could not scratch themselves lie he gave gane them thein a good brushing every morning and it is ray my rule in III chiding ft horse that vi whenever I 1 feel that I 1 wr went nt it i drink ill ink rny telf I 1 I 1 also iao s NO that the roay may be ba suffel oiin ing in III tile the wine s anio direction the horse senator ac palmer went on has great poi potters ers of endurance ud urance lie ile liis has at 11 fine knee action rc tion nail and lie is of eliat n cu treat him better belter flinn they do a 1 I uller horse lie lias has gond gold avind alad lias has nil tho the nimbleness and speed of 0 the coach laor horse IC last year tear morre more than worth of these liase horses alvera acro import imported ed and I 1 believe that they are going to prova pro il oa as tho the A americal Ameri me r acau caa draft dioro I 1 paid it a A visit sit to senator palmers halmers Pal mers farm near 11 ar detroit last it contains acres and the fineron improvements cements upon it have cost the senator 0 over er ile ho has nuie icille uiles miles of drives through its woods eighty miles of audit and a miniature lake which was dug by hand and which is kept tull full of water by a r steam engine NO ito has it a log cabin which cost and his animal lobbies hobbies are horses jersey cows and elau heiju Fpaul els ills his horses are n named amed after the marshals or france frank G carpenter in new cw york world |