RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION 
In the survey made of the breeding, feeding, and management of pure¬ 
bred draft horses two systems of investigation were followed, viz: Firstly, 
by personal inquiry while visiting several leading studs, and secondly, 
through correspondence in which an expansive questionnaire* was sent 
to each of a number of breeding establishments The amount of time avail¬ 
able and the big traveling expenses necessary were limiting factors which 
made it possible for the writer to visit but twelve breeding establish¬ 
ments in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa in the summer of 1920. In addition 
to this, as has already been mentioned, personal interviews were also 
held with a few breeders while visiting the county fairs at Janesville, 
Wisconsin, the interstate fairs at Kankakee, Illinois, and at Sioux City, 
Iowa, the State Fairs at Springfield, Ill., and at Des Moines, Iowa, and 
the Belgian Horse Show at Waterloo, Iowa, during the same period. 
A good deal of material in Chapter XIV of Sander and Dinsmore’s “A 
History of the Percheron Horse” was incorporated in the results of the 
investigation. This was done so in view of the fact that several breeders 
treated in this chapter were also dealt with in the survey. 
The subsequent discussion is the result of investigation based on data 
furnished by breeders of Percheron, Belgian, Clydesdale, Shire, Suffolk, 
and mixed-draft breeds of horses. 
*See Appendix II. 
