Chapter Nine 

 MANAGEMENT OF A STOCK FARM 



Business Principles. The Superintendent.- The Trainer. 

 Grooms. Sources of Revenue. Advertising and Cata- 

 logues. Breeding Records. Causes of Failures. Sources 

 of Waste. 



rr*VEHS chapter will be written for the benefit 



of the gentleman who has founded a stock 



farm of considerable size, although the 



advice and suggestions may be put to practice 



by him who breeds on a smaller scale. 



I will suppose that the reader is the owner of a 

 farm laid out as directed in chapter three. Con- 

 siderable money, doubtless, has been spent on the 

 establishment. 



BUSINESS PRINCIPLES. 



Even if it has been founded for pleasure alone, 

 the farm should be conducted on business prin- 

 ciples and, if possible, made to pay expenses. 

 When one comes out before the trotting world as 

 a breeder, he is entering a field which contains 

 some of the smartest and shrewdest business men 

 in the country. In fact, if some horsemen who 

 follow the business professionally had devoted a 

 like amount of attention to commercial pursuits 

 they would have made fortunes for themselves. 



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