Excerpt from Oaklawn Stud of Percheron Horses Imported and Bred by M. W. Dunham, Wayne, Dupage Co., Illinois, Thirty-Five Miles West of Chicago, on the Galena Division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway: Catalogue for 1888
The knowledge that the. Percheron is superiortto all other breeds, gained by personal investigation at the beginning of the importations of Oaklawn, has been the cause of the'unswerving devotion of its proprietor to that race, confident that its supremacy would assert itself when the facts became thoroughly known'to our people.
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