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PURE BRED DRAFT HORSES 
Waddington Farm, Longview Stock Farm, Maple Lawn Farm, Hawthorn 
Farm, Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm, at the Kentucky farms, and at 
Purdue University. The establishments that limit the services to two a 
day for their mature stallion are the Selma Farm, Irvinedale Farm, Lake- 
wood Farm, Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm, Gossard Breeding Estates, 
Pentoila Stock Farm, White Oak Stock Farm, J. H. Serven and Son, 
Ritchie Stock Farm, G. Andrews and Son, Maple Lawn Stock Farm, and 
the Universities of Missouri, Minnesota, and Illinois. Followers of three- 
services-a-day limitation are the Arngibbon Farm, Holbert Farms (if far 
apart), Woodside Farm, Cornell University, the Michigan Agricultural 
College, Iowa State College, and Stericker. In Hayfield Farm and at the 
University of Wisconsin the mature stud horse is allowed to cover as 
many as four times in a day, while Kiddoo says that as many as five serv¬ 
ices have been indulged in in his stud, and all mares served produced. 
White prefers that the two services stipulated in one day be not closer 
than four hours apart. 
Some farms find that, as a general rule, one service is enough to settle 
the mare, among which are: the Oakdale Farm, Lefebure Sons’ Go., the 
Thos. Kiddoo Farm, and the Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm. “Two 
services to settle” is the experience of the Arngibbon Farm, the Michigan 
Agricultural College, Hawthorn Farm, Pentoila Stock Farm, Iowa State 
College, and at the Hayfield Farm it is claimed that it is seldom that more 
than two services are required to impregnate the mare. In some stud 
farms the breeders find that the number of services necessary to effect 
impregnation is from one to three. This is so at the Universities of Mis¬ 
souri and Minnesota, Longview Stock Farm, and Truman’s Pioneer Stud 
Farm. At the Irvinedale Farm, it takes from two to three services to set¬ 
tle the mare, and at the Woodside Farm and the University of Wisconsin 
from one to two services. J. H. Serven and Son reports on three services 
to settle the mare. 
Compiling the data on the percentage of successful impregnation with 
mares that once accept the stallion, as well as those bred twice, thrice, 
and four or more times, we find that the figures from different breeding 
establishments are at variance. These are more clearly demonstrated in 
the following table: 
6. “Teasers” 
The majority of farms reporting do not advise the use of teasers, but 
several hold an important place for them. Those that are opposed to the 
use of “teasers” are the Selma Farm, Oaklawn Farm, Pentoila Stock Farm, 
Woodside Farm, Lefebure Sons’ Co., Longview Stock Farm, Ritchie 
Stock Farm, Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm, Arngibbon Farm, Truman’s 
Pioneer Stud Farm, Lakewood Farm, and the University of Wisconsin. 
But Good says that it is absolutely necessary to employ a teaser, inasmuch 
as teasing is just as much a task on the stallion as breeding. At the Haw¬ 
thorn Farm it is the practice to employ teasers only when the mares to 
be bred are plenty, and at the Gossard Breeding Estates, while teasers are 
not generally needed, they may be employed to help out nervous stallions. 
So, too, Hanmer is of the opinion that teasers are needed in the case of a 
nervous stud horse. Edmonds advocates also the employment of a teaser 
when services on the part of the stud horse are heavy, and the same pro¬ 
cedure is followed at the Michigan Agricultural College. At the Maple 
Lawn Farm it is only with the best stallions that teasers are used, in this 
instance the point being to safeguard these valuable individuals from ac¬ 
cidents. J. H. Serven and Son favor the employment of teasers. It will 
not be amiss to mention breeding establishments that employ the teaser, 
