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ful of salt by mixing with the grain; and also in the case of Irvinedale 
Farm, which follows a system of salting twice a week, giving a handful 
each time in the feed. At Selma Farm, Woodside Farm, and Oaklawn 
Farm, the salt is given also mixed with the feed. The salt is mixed with 
the feed only in the case of' salting older animals at the Lefebure Sons’ 
Co. At the University of Minnesota the stallion is supplied with salt in 
the feed box once a week. To salt the stallion, from the report of Michi¬ 
gan Agricultural College, the salt is sprinkled in the chop feed, and the 
balance of the supply is kept in a salt box on the side of the stall. At the 
Iowa State College the stallion gets one tablespoonful of powdered salt 
twice a week. Assuming that those feeding the salt mixed in the feed 
furnish the salt in loose form; therefore, the farms using the “loose,” 
“coarse,” “powdered,” or “barreled” salt would include the Selma Farm, 
Irvinedale Farm, Oaklawn Farm, Maplegrove Farm, in which the nature of 
the salt used is not specifically indicated, besides ten others—the Arn- 
gibbon Farm, Iowa State College, Chestnut Farms, Oaklawn Farm, Ma¬ 
plegrove Farm—which do not state specifically the character of the salt 
given, besides eight others—Arngibbon Farm, University of Illinois, 
Michigan Agricultural College, Maple Lawn Farm, University of Minne¬ 
sota, Gregory Farm, Ritchie Stock Farm, and Hawthorn Farm—in which 
the “loose,” “coarse,” or “barreled stock” salt is used. At the Lefebure 
Sons’ Co. the loose salt (presumed so because it is mixed with the feed, 
although not specifically stated) is given only to the older horses, as 
above mentioned, 'while for the younger horses the rock salt is given. 
Those in which the “rock,” “block,” “brick,” or “caked” form of salt is 
used exclusively are: the Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm, Longview Stock 
Farm, Rookwood Farm, Thos. Kiddoo Farm, Thompsondale Farm, Wad- 
dington Farm, Gossard Breeding Estates, Raboin Pioneer Homestead 
Farm, Purdue University, Cornell University, and, according to Hooper, 
at the Central Kentucky Farms. Stericker also advises the use of rock 
salt. 
Twenty-eight farms replying to the question, “Are any commercial 
‘stock tonics’ fed to the stallions? If so, which ones?” answered no. 
Among others who responded, Hooper says that in Central Kentucky 
“some use, but not often”; Truman writes: “Unless the stallion is run 
down in flesh give no tonic”; according to Thompson, feed oil meal and 
bran instead of the so-called stock tonic; and at the Top Notch Stock 
Farm the stallion is given three or four eggs daily, or one or two eggs every 
feeding, which, presumably, is intended to give the same effect as is gen¬ 
erally expected from stock tonic. 
The systems of feeding the stallion in the different establishments 
studied differ in practically each individual case. The foodstuff used, 
however, bears similarity in a number of instances. It would be most 
logical, it is believed, to present this phase of the subject by citing in full 
the feeds and methods of feeding followed in each establishment. 
Cornell University: When the stallion is in “service-free” months the 
ration consists of timothy hay, fed morning and afternoon at the rate of 
six pounds each feeding, and whole oats, fed at the rate of two pounds 
each time, morning, noon, and afternoon. Four pounds of bran mash are 
supplied once a week in place of two pounds of whole oats. During the 
breeding period the amount of whole oats given is doubled or trebled, 
while from eight to nine pounds of chopped timothy hay are furnished in 
the morning, and the same amount in the afternoon. The cut timothy hay 
given during the breeding season is mixed with the grain portion of the 
ration. Carrots are supplied occasionally. 
Chestnut Farms: During the breeding months the stallion at this stud 
gets six quarts of rolled oats in the morning, and next, in the afternoon, 
the grain feed consists of rolled oats, bran, and chopped roughage. Mixed 
