| 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 |