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PURE BRED DRAFT HORSES 
pail of feed mixture prepared at the farm each time, four times a day, 
at six and eleven o’clock in the morning, and five-thirty and eight o’clock 
in the evening. The preparation and contents of the mixture follow: One- 
third of oats and two-thirds of cut hay are mixed together. To the amount 
of this mixture to be fed to eighteen horses a gallon of molasses, diluted 
in a pail of water, is added. The hay is cut in one-quarter-inch lengths by 
means of a Smalley Force Feed No. 12 hay-cutter. One pail of the mixture 
as has just been referred to, together with a handful of salt, is given each 
horse each feeding. 
Maple Lawn Farm: Oats and bran, mixed together, and bright wild hay 
and timothy hay are mentioned as feeds given to the stallion during the 
breeding season. These are fed three times a day. When out of season 
mixed hay is fed three times a day, but oats and bran, in half-and-half 
proportion, are fed only in the morning and night, at the rate of one gal- 
ion and a half each feeding. The grain feed is wetted with diluted mo¬ 
lasses, one gallon of molasses to five gallons of water. Alfalfa or clover 
hay is fed only very sparingly. As to feeding cotton-seed meal, Peterson 
says: “I would consider it very poor practice in case of a breeding horse.” 
He writes, too, in regard to corn feeding: “I would not feed corn in the 
breeding season,” but ear corn is fed once in a while. The show horses, 
in the fall, are given green corn at the rate of about ten pounds per head 
(supposedly per day). To show horses special attention is given to feed¬ 
ing oats, which should be recleaned of all foul seed and dust. 
Oaklawn Farm: The breeding season ration consists of six quarts of 
oats fed three times a day and hay (kind not mentioned) in limited 
amounts. Two times a week the stallion gets bran mash, with about half 
an ounce of saltpeter. When the stallion is out of breeding work the 
grain feed includes four quarts of oats supplied twice daily. Clover or 
alfalfa hay is considered a very good adjunct to the stallion’s feeds. 
Pentoila Stock Farm: At this farm the feeding practice is to give the 
stallion, during the breeding season, all the mixed hay he will clean up, 
and whole oats and bran for concentrate. The same feeds are given in the 
non-breeding time, but the amount of grain should be less. Some green 
corn is given in the fall, and clover or alfalfa hay is held in satisfactory 
esteem. 
Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm: When the stallion is active in serv¬ 
ice he is fed one and a half gallons of whole oats each feeding, and for 
roughage good timothy hay, three times a day. These are supplemented 
with liberal access to pasture. Oat straw, fed three times a day, is given 
in the non-breeding season. No mention is made of the grain feeds during 
this season. No objection is offered to feeding alfalfa and clover hay mix¬ 
ture, and corn to form part of the ration is considered satisfactory. 
Selma Farm: The feed of the stallion during the breeding season con¬ 
sists of one and a half gallons of crushed oats each time, in the morning, 
noon, and at night, with mixed hay for roughage. During and about a 
month before the beginning of the breeding season timothy hay is sub¬ 
stituted for mixed hay. In winter bran in equal amounts as crushed oats 
is given instead. The feed during the non-breeding season is reduced to 
two-thirds in the case of grains and of hay; enough is supplied as the 
stallion will eat up clean. 
University of Wisconsin: At this institution the grain mixture given 
to the stallion during the breeding season comprehends crushed oats and 
wheat bran, in proportion of eighty and twenty parts, respectively. Eight 
to ten pounds of the mixture are set aside to be divided equally in three 
equal feeds. No mention is made of the roughage fed during the same 
period. When the stallion is in out-of-service season only six to eight 
pounds of the grain mixture referred to are given daily in three equal 
feeds. The roughage feed at this time consists of fifteen to eighteen pounds 
of mixed hay given three times a day. If corn is to be fed it should not 
