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therefore reduce the liabilities due to dead foals, and the 
like which come from lack of proper care. Also the stal- 
lion owner will then not be troubled with mares which 
are not likely to get in foal, especially if the breeders use 
the season charge. Another advantage of the season 
charge is that it usually insures that the mare owners 
will return their mares with more regularity, and therefore 
give the stallion owner a better chance to get them in foal. 
Stallion men now largely use breeding contracts con- 
sisting of a promissory note for the service of the stallion 
payable when the terms of the breeding service are ful- 
filled. This is signed by the owner of the mare, and there- 
fore a more careful record is kept of it than otherwise. 
This will also make it possible to collect for the mares in a 
much easier manner than where no absolute record is 
kept of the service. The entire stallion business should be 
considered as a business investment and handled as such. 
This cannot be done except by the use of business methods. 
