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PURE BRED DRAFT HORSES 
Ritchie Stock Farm: Ritchie has for his stallion’s ration oats, two 
parts, bran, one part, to which one pint of oil meal is added, and hay— 
timothy, clover, alfalfa, sweet clover—furnished ad libitum. The same 
feeds are supplied both in the breeding and out-of-breeding periods. Be¬ 
side the grain mentioned above, a little corn is also added, and for rough- 
age, straw and occasionally hay are employed. The grain feed may be 
given dry or in mash form, and corn could either be on the ear or ground. 
For dampening the grain feed half and half of water and molasses, mixed 
together, is added to produce the mash. It is desired that only a limited 
amount of alfalfa or clover hay be used. For soilage Ritchie uses cut 
alfalfa, sweet clover, and green corn. 
Top Notch Stock Farm: Whole oats, bran, and oil meal constitute the 
concentrate components of the stallion’s ration. These are mixed in equal 
parts during the breeding season. When out of season the amount of oats 
in the mixture is increased to two-thirds, and the rest, oatmeal and bran, 
in half-and-half portions. For roughage, timothy and clover hay are 
given. At each feeding, three times a day, whether during the breeding 
season or not, the stallion gets two-thirds of a pail of the grain mixture, 
and the hay is supplied on the ground twice a day, first in the morning, 
and next at night, after the grain feeding in both cases. Only enough of 
the roughage is given as the stallion will clean up. 
Arngibbon Farm: Two parts of oats, two parts of bran, and one part 
of chopped hay—these form the grain mixture given to the stallion in this 
breeding establishment. At noon this mixture is fed in a dampened form, 
for which one cup of molasses, made thinner by the addition of an equal 
amount of water, is used each feeding. Timothy hay is given, all the 
horse will clean up in the morning and at night. During the breeding 
period one pail of the concentrate is provided for each feeding, but on 
“rest” days, when the stallion is over with the breeding work, the grain 
feed is reduced to one-half Soilage crop in the form of cut timothy clover 
and sometimes corn, may occasionally be fed to the stallion in the spring. 
Hawthorn Farm: The system of feeding in this farm comprises: For 
concentrates eighteen quarts of rolled oats are diveded into three feedings 
in a day, and on Tuesday and Saturday nights one pail of bran mash 
takes the place of the rolled oats. Five pounds of mixed hay (timothy and 
clover) are supplied in the morning and next, at night, the amount is in¬ 
creased to fifteen pounds. This procedure applies to breeding season feed¬ 
ing practice. In the idle months, when the stud horse is out of breeding 
service, only rolled oats are given, at the rate of five pounds each feeding, 
morning and night, while the feeding of oue pail of bran mash is contin¬ 
ued, but only on Saturday nights. The same amount of mixed hay (five 
pounds) is given in the morning feeding, and for the second feeding fif¬ 
teen to twenty pounds of the same material are used. A handful of Epsom 
salt is placed once a month in the manger the year around. The hay is 
fed on the ground. Once in a while soilage crop is furnished. 
Thompsondale Farm: For roughage the stallion is fed small amounts 
of wild hay (prairie) in the morning and also at night during the breeding 
period. The feeds include mostly oats and some bran. When the breed¬ 
ing season is over prairie hay, together with a small amount of a mixed 
prairie-timothy-clover hay forms the roughage portion of the ration. For 
cencentrates corn, bran and oats, and, at times, a little oil meal, are fed. 
The oats are fed whole or ground, and the corn may also be fed on the ear 
or ground. Occasionally the grain feed is turned into mash, but no mo¬ 
lasses is given during the breeding season. A little green feed is advised 
at any time, but silage is discriminated against. In feeding clover only 
the clean material should be used, this to be mixed in small amounts 
with other hays. 
Waddington Farm: Hine states that the stallion in this stud farm “is 
‘roughed,’ and has all the hay he will clean up with about two quarts 
