Planning a Stud Farm. 5 



The home yard, containing the stud groom's house, brood 

 mare boxes, foaling boxes, and general offices, should be 

 centrally situated, with the paddocks radiating from it, 

 like the spokes from the hub of the wheel. The stallion 

 boxes and covering yard should be at a distance from the 

 mares' boxes, and so situated that the sires can get to their 

 daily exercise ground, be it public highway or paddock, 

 without having to run the gauntlet, en route, of batches of 

 mares and foals, grazing on either hand. The foaling 

 boxes should be near the stud groom's quarters, and some- 

 what removed from the other brood mare boxes. The 

 yearling boxes should also be well removed from the mares' 

 quarters. 



Taking the fourteen items in detail, at first blush it 

 might be thought that the gate house could safely be left to 

 individual taste and ideas. But in gate lodge architecture, 

 comfort and convenience are so commonly sacrificed to 

 beauty of external design, that it is desirable briefly to 

 point out where the average servant's cottage falls short of 

 perfection. The introduction of the subject is justified by 

 the fact that a contented, happy servant is generally an 

 ideal servant. As married men are more apt to stay at home 

 after the day's work is ended than single men, they make, 

 other things being equal, the best stud farm employees, 

 being more likely to be available in cases of sudden illness 

 among the horses. Put briefly, the ideal gate house for the 

 ideal stud should contain not less than three bedrooms one 

 for the man and wife, one for the sons, and one for the 

 daughters. Anything less is not conducive to decency, 

 comfort and contentment. 



STALLION BOXES. 



The Stallion Boxes should not be less than 16 feet 

 square; an ideal size is 18 feet square. They should be 



