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viously referred to, that mares in this stud are not worked. Suckling 
mothers get four quarts of oats and two of bran per head each feeding, 
together with hay supplied at will, or pasture. 
Dix says that mares at the Pentoila Stock Farm are fed three times a 
day, morning, noon and night, when they are being worked, while idle 
mares on pasture get but one morning feeding of grain per day. Mares 
that are idling through the winter get but one grain feeding when on pas¬ 
ture and two when in the barn. 
At the Rookwood Farm working mares get three feedings of corn at the 
rate of ten ears per head each time, morning, noon and night, and for 
roughage mixed clover and timothy hay are supplied at will. To idle 
mares on pasture two grain feedings—in the morning and at night—are 
provided for, at the rate of seven and a half ears of corn per head each 
feeding. Grass forms the sole source of bulk. Mares that are nursing their 
foals get a grain mixture of four quarts of oats and two of bran, of 
which six quarts is fed per head at each feeding, three times a day. Mixed 
hay is likewise supplied at will as in the case of working mares. During 
the winter idle mares are fed on corn fodder, as much as three bundles 
per head daily, in which an average of fifteen ears of corn are present. 
This fodder is given once a day in the morning. In this farm no horses 
are ever allowed to have access to silage. 
At the Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm working mares are fed timothy 
or clover hay for roughage and half and half of corn and oats, mixed, for 
grain. Idle mares on pasture are grained morning and evening, and idle 
mares in the winter season get their feeds the same hours. Moldy feeds 
are looked upon with suspicion in feeding pregnant mares. 
At the Santa Anita Rancho, working mares are usually fed three times 
a day, idle mares on pasture once, usually in the morning, while idle 
mares being wintered get very small grain allowance in the morning and 
night feedings. 
The feeding practices at the University of Wisconsin follow: Working 
mares are grained with oats three times a day, five to seven pounds in 
the morning, six to seven pounds at noon, and five to seven pounds in the 
night time. For roughage legume hay is supplied twice, eight pounds in 
the morning and the same quantity at night. Idle mares on pasture get 
no other feed, except, perhaps, straw, than the grass available, but during 
hot spells they are stabled in the daytime and given grain morning and 
afternoon. During the winter season idle mares subsist on eight pounds 
of mixed hay in the morning and the same amount of this hay is fed at 
night. Four pounds of straw or second-quality hay is given for the noon 
feeding. Oats alone supplied at the rate of five to seven pounds in the 
morning and the same quantity in the night make up the grain allowance. 
Suckling mares get a grain mixture of 80 per cent of oats and 20 per cent 
of bran, fed eight pounds in the morning, six pounds at noon, and eight 
pounds at night. Legume or mixed hay is given as roughage. Eight pounds 
of this are fed in the morning, four pounds at noon and from eight to ten 
pounds at night. In feeding pregnant mares care must be taken that the 
feeds are not very low in protein content, moldy or spoiled. 
Trowbridge states that the general method of feeding brood mares at 
the University of Missouri is to feed (working mares three times a day, 
and those that are idled through the winter two times a day, in the 
morning and evening only. Idle mares on pasture get grain once a day in 
the morning only. According to Butler, the mares at the Woodside Farm 
are fed but hay and oats, whether they are working, suckling, or idle on 
pastures. Nothing is mentioned regarding the kinds of feeds supplied in 
winter. The working mares are fed three times a day and idle mares on 
pasture receive two grain feedings a day. Idle mares in winter get only 
two feedings also. No feeds at all are objected to in feeding pregnant 
mares. 
