52 HORSE SENSE. 



ONE SERVICE AS GOOD AS ANY NUMBER. 



Many mare owners have a "notion" — it is nothing more — that two 

 'or three services are better than one. But when it is positively known 

 that there is sufficient vitalizing power in one service for seven or eight 

 mares (as that many mares have been artificially impregnated from the 

 one service) is certainly sufficient to satisfy the most incredulous, that 

 one service is all that is necessary if conditions are all right. 



ARTIFICIAL IMPREGNATION BY INJECTION. 



It is far better where a stallion has a heavy run of business, to arti- 

 ficially impregnate all those over and above the number that would over- 

 tax the stallion. Keep the stallion vigorous and then a large number 

 of his patrons may be artificially impregnated. It has been success- 

 fully demonstrated that the seed or vital fluid can be extracted from 

 the mare after service, kept as long as five hours, divided among as 

 many as seven mares, injected into their wombs and the whole eight 

 get in foal. That is the first served by the stallion and the other seven 

 by artificial impregnation. This last method is the only outlet for get- 

 ting the very best stock and not have the sires overtaxed, minimize the 

 service fees and have more good colts. 



