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PURE BRED DRAFT HORSES 
FARMS 
Gossard Breeding Estates 
J. H. Serven and Son 
Lakewood Farm 
Leslie Farm 
Oaklawn Farm 
Selma Farm 
University of Missouri 
Woodside Farm 
University of Illinois 
Lefebure Sons’ Co. 
Longview Stock Farm 
Hayfield Farm 
Hawthorn Farm 
Thompsondale Farm 
Thos. Kiddoo Farm 
Michigan Agricultural College 
KIND OF EXERCISE 
the stallion is also worked in the 
harness, or led by hand, or ridden. 
During the non-breeding season the 
stallion is simply exercised in half¬ 
acre pasture. 
If not worked, the stallion is walked 
four miles daily. 
“A paddock to run in all the time and 
driven to a cart in breeding sea¬ 
son.” 
Run of a paddock and led. 
Run of a 32-feet square paddock, but 
during the breeding season is hand 
led. 
Sometimes led two miles daily. 
The main exercise consists of allow¬ 
ing the stallion a free use of a one- 
and-a-half-acre paddock, but he is 
sometimes ridden. 
Ridden and running in the lot. 
Run of a paddock and hand led. 
Ridden on the road four to seven 
miles per day. 
Run in a paddock, 100x30 feet, or a 
five-acre lot. If the stallion will not 
exercise in the paddock he is led 
or driven in the road. 
Worked in the harness. 
Led. 
Led and worked in harness. 
During the breeding season every day 
the stallion is exercised at the end 
of a rope on a side hill. 
About four miles’ w^alk, and partly 
in harness. 
The stallion has constant access to 
the paddock when not working in 
harness. 
According to Stericker Run of half-acre lot, but exercising 
by hand is surer and better. 
In thirteen farms—the Maple Lawn Farm, Arngibbon Farm, Raboin 
Pioneer Homestead Farm, Iowa State College, Ritchie Stock Farm, Pen- 
toila Stock Farm, Oakdale Farm, Holbert Farms, Waddington Farm, Top 
Notch Stock Farm, Wisconsin University, Purdue University, and the 
University of Minnesota—the stallion is allowed the run of a paddock or 
pasture 
In fifteen farms, according to the reports, the stallions are not worked, 
among which are the Top Notch Stock Farm, Irvinedale Farm, Holbert 
Farms, Iowa State College, Hawthorn Farm, Woodside Farm, Raboin 
Pioneer Homestead Farm, Oakdale Farm, Thompsondale Farm, Oaklawn 
Farm, Selma Farm, Lefebure Sons’ Co., Arngibbon Farm, University of 
Minnesota, and Purdue University. Also, according to Hooper, in Central 
Kentucky the practice is not to work the stallion. Good states that if the 
