TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Production, Rearing, and Improvement of the Percheron Horse			[7]
PART FIRST.
Greatness and Decline of the Percherons.
Chapter	I.	—Glance at Perche	[11]
Chapter	II.	—Sketch of the Percheron Race	[14]
Chapter	III.	—Origin of the Percheron	[17]
Chapter	IV.	—Modifications of the Percheron Race	[20]
Chapter	V.	—His first Modification due to contact with the Brittany Race	[21]
Chapter	VI.	—Conditions under which they are bred	[23]
Chapter	VII.	—Causes of the Degeneracy of the Percheron Horse	[26]
Chapter	VIII.	—Starting Point of this Degeneration	[28]
PART SECOND.
Of the Means of Regenerating the Percheron Horse			[32]
Chapter	I.	—Regeneration of the Percheron Breed	[33]
Chapter	II.	—Regeneration of the Breed through itself or by Selection	[33]
Chapter	III.	—Consanguinity	[38]
Chapter	IV.	—Ought the gray coat of the Percheron to be inflexibly maintained?	[40]
Chapter	V.	—Preserve pure, and without Mixture the three Types of the Percheron Race—the Light Horse, the Draft-Horse, the Intermediate Horse	[44]
Chapter	VI.	—Improvement of the Breed by means of Foreign Crossings	[48]
Chapter	VII.	—The Arab Cross	[51]
Chapter	VIII.	—The English Cross	[64]
Chapter	IX.	—Improvement by means of the Stud-book	[71]
Recapitulation			[75]
PART THIRD.
Information to Strangers wishing to buy Percheron Horses			[81]
Chapter	I.	—Food and Breeding	[84]
Chapter	II.	—Trade. Glance at the most celebrated Breeding Districts	[93]
Chapter	III.	—Speed and Bottom of the Percheron Horse	[95]
Chapter	IV.	—Tests of Speed of the Percheron Horse	[97]
Chapter	V.	—Tests of Endurance of the Percheron Horse	[99]