MANAGEMENT OF THE STALLION 
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Farm, Irvinedale Farm, Lefebure Sons’ Co., Ritchie Stock Farm, Oakdale 
Farm, Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm, Thos. Kiddoo Farm, Woodside 
Farm, Purdue University, Cornell University, University of Missouri, Uni¬ 
versity of Illinois, and Michigan Agricultural College—follow the feeding 
of three times daily—in the morning, noon, and evening or night. At the 
Wisconsin University the stallion is fed three times daily, but when the 
breeding services are heavy, an additional feeding is given for the day. 
At both the Thompsondale and Hawthorn Farms the feeding is made three 
times daily during the breeding season and only twice when out of sea¬ 
son. It is the practice at the Gossard Breeding Estates to feed the stallion 
three times daily during the breeding season and the same number when 
out of season if the stallion is being worked. The University of Minnesota 
reports that two feedings a day are all that the stallion receives, in the 
morning and in the afternoon, while at the Chestnut Farms the feeding 
is made at 8:00 a. m. and 4:30 p. m., and during the show season the same 
amount of feeds are distributed in five feedings daily. 
It is again the majority practice to water the horse before feeding, as 
evidenced by the reports of twenty-one farms, viz: the Longview Stock 
Farm, Chestnut Farms, the Thos. Kiddoo Farm, Rookwood Farm, Iowa 
State College, Pentoila Stock Farm, Maple Lawn Farm, Arngibbon Farm, 
Lakewood Farm, Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm, Raboin Pioneer Home¬ 
stead Farm, Lefebure Sons’ Co., Oakdale Farm, Hawthorn Farm, Wad- 
dington Farm, Thompsondale Farm, Gossard Breeding Estates, Woodside 
Farm, the Universities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri. Seven 
farms—the Oaklawn Farm, Holbert Farms, White Oak Stock Farm, Ritchie 
Stock Farm, Purdue University, the University of Illinois, and the Michi¬ 
gan Agricultural College—follow the system of watering both before and 
after feeding. There is no one rule followed at the Hayfield Farm; it is 
usually before, but sometimes after, feeding; and likewise at the J. H. 
Serven and Son farm, there is no certain time of watering the horse. In 
Cornell University the stallion is watered at 9 o’clock in the morning and 
at 4 in the afternoon only. According to White, at the Selma Farm the 
stallion is watered before feeding and also between feeding while he is in 
the stable. In the paddock water is kept before him. Hooper, writing on 
the practices to be found in Central Kentucky, says that horses there are 
watered several times daily. Watering six times a day, at six, eight, and 
eleven-thirty in the morning, at one and five-thirty in the afternoon, and 
at eight in the evening, both before and after feeding—these constitute 
the system of watering the stallion enforced at Irvinedale Farm. 
Save one, the Top Notch Farm, of the thirty-five farms reporting, the 
common table salt, either in loose or brick forms, is used in salting the 
stallions. In the Top Notch Farm, instead of using the table salt, a hand¬ 
ful of Glauber’s salt is administered, but only whenever the stallion is 
constipated. The manner of giving the salt falls under two heads: One 
class of breeders advocates the system of giving the salt at will, 
while the other gives it in limited quantities. Adherents of the “free sup¬ 
ply” system are the Ritchie Stock Farm, Pentoila Stock Farm, Lakewood 
Farm, Gregory Farm, Oakdale Farm, Hawthorn Farm, Longview Stock 
Farm, Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm, Thompsondale Farm, Waddington 
Farm, Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm, Gossard Breeding Estates, Purdue 
University, Cornell University, and also, according to Hooper, in the farms 
at Central Kentucky the brick salt is kept in the stall or in the pasture 
to which the stallion has access at all times. In Cornell University the 
caked form of salt is used, which is supplied by means of a special device. 
Others, supplying the salt in limited amounts, almost all give the salt by 
mixing with the feed. This is true of the Arngibbon Farm, where a hand¬ 
ful of the salt is placed in the feed once a week; of the Maplegrove Farm, 
in which a handful of salt is mixed with the feed every feeding; of the 
University of Illinois, whose practice is to supply daily a level tablespoon- 
