STALLIONS, BROOD MARES AND FOALS. 131 



myself a few years ago from the statistics of 

 horse-breeding in the government studs of 

 Germany, as given by the late Hon. J. H. Klip- 

 part in his report to the Ohio State Board of 

 Agriculture. These statistics run back to 1859, 

 and include all the intervening years up to 1874 

 (except 1869), in which are shown the results 

 at eleven different points. The first column 

 under each locality named shows the number 

 of stallions employed for that year; the second 

 gives the average number of mares served by 

 each horse, expressed in whole numbers and 

 decimals; the third gives the percentage of 

 mares served that proved in foal, and the fourth 

 gives the percentage of mares served that pro- 

 duced live foals. The table is full of interest 

 and may be studied by horse-breeders with 

 profit. It will be observed that the percentage 

 of mares that proved in foal, as well as the 

 percentage of live foals dropped, varies con- 

 siderably in the different establishments. The 

 highest percentage of mares in foal was at the 

 great Trakehnen establishment, in 1860, when 

 the average was 80.2; and here we also find the 

 highest average throughout the entire series of 

 years. But we find the average running as low 

 as 40 per cent in 1874, at Wickrath, with only 

 33.3 per cent of live foals, while several locali- 

 ties report as high as 62.6 of live foals. It 

 would be interesting to know the causes which 



