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a half acres. At the Woodside Farm and at Iowa State College a four-acre 
ground is favored, and at the Longview Stock Farm a still larger pasture 
of five acres is allotted to each mare. 
8. Feeding 
Ritchie and Kiddoo describe the condition of their brood mares as “or¬ 
dinary,” rwhile at the Hawthorn Farm, Arngibbon Farm, Purdue Univer¬ 
sity, Lefebure Sons’ Co., Cornell University, Rookwood Farm, Santa Anita 
Rancho, and Irvinedale Farm the mares are maintained in “premium” con¬ 
dition or “medium flesh.” Edmonds, Augustin, and Pallister mention that 
brood mares should be kept in “moderate” condition. At the Waddington 
Farm, Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm, and Woodside Farm “fair” con¬ 
dition or “fair flesh” of brood mares is favored. Fuller desires that they 
should be kept from “fair to good” condition, while a number of studs— 
the Gossard Breeding Estates, University of Minnesota, Holbert Farms, 
Maple Lawn Farm, Hayfield Farm, Truman’s Pioneer Homestead Farm, 
Pentoila Stock Farm, Selma Farm, and Lakewood Farm—keep their 
brood mares in “good” condition or “good flesh.” At Central Kentucky 
Farms mares are also maintained in “good” condition. The Andrews, Good, 
and Stericker put the breeding condition of mares as “healthy” or “thrifty,” 
but Good and Stericker point out the inadvisability of letting them go to 
excessive fatness. Serven and Holbert also disfavor the overly fat brood 
mares. At the Michigan Agricultural College the brood mare’s condition is 
a little better than “good working flesh,” and according to Henderson, 
their mares are “kept in a healthy condition, with lots of range.” In this 
connection it may be said that Oaklawn Farm mares are not worked. At 
the Longview Stock Farm, Iowa State College, Thompsondale Farm, and 
the University of Missouri mares are so handled that they maintain 
“working” condition. At the latter stud the condition of their mares is 
thinner in winter time to be fattened some in summer. 
At Cornell University working mares are given eight to nine pounds 
of timothy hay in the morning and a like amount of the roughage in the 
afternoon per head daily. The grain mixture consists of oats and hominy 
in half-and-half combination. Of this five to six pounds are given each 
feeding, morning, noon, and afternoon, and on Saturdays four pounds of 
bran mash is substituted for the afternoon feeding. No grains are fed idle 
mares on pasture. For feeding mares that are suckling foals a grain mix¬ 
ture composed of 30 per cent bran, 30 per cent oats, 30 per cent hominy 
and 10 per cent oil meal is used. Three to six pounds of this are fed each 
time in the morning, noon, and afternoon. For roughage timothy hay is 
employed. 
At the Chestnut Farms, working mares are fed hree times a day. Thus, 
in the morning four quarts of oats and one quart of corn, four quarts of 
oats at noon, and at night mixed bran, rolled oats and “chop” are supplied 
to each mare during the day. No mention is made as to the kind and 
amount of roughage given. Suckling mares are given alfalfa and clover 
hay at the rate of fifteen pounds each feeding, one in the morning and 
another in the afternoon. For grain feeds each mare gets a mixture of five 
quarts of oats and four quarts of bran (dry) in the morning, and at night 
bran, rolled oats, and “chop” are supplied in a damp form. Idle mares are 
not grained at all, but when the weather is too “rough” and the grass is 
short during the winter, eight ears of corn are given per head daily. Corn 
and any oil containing feeds are discriminated against in feeding preg¬ 
nant mares. 
At the Gregory Farm brood mares get no corn, but are fed from one to 
one and a half gallons of rolled oats each, two times a day. No hay is pro¬ 
vided for, but, instead, their roughage allowance is made up of the grass 
they get from the pasture, because those mares are turned out to grass 
