VIII 
SUMMARY 
To summarize, the writer finds but a few words to say: That while a 
few common practices may be the rule in all farms surveyed, yet it is safe 
to say that, in general, the breeding, feeding and management of pure¬ 
bred draft horses in the leading stud farms in the United States follow no 
one “prescription,” so to speak, whether it be in the systems of breeding 
employed, on the care and handling of the stallion, of the brood mare, of 
foals and of weanlings, whether it be on the handling of diseases or other 
afflictions, on the provision for drugs, disinfectants and veterinary appar¬ 
atuses, or on the material and plans of construction of boxstalls and 
barns. An attempt to reduce the findings to a point-to-point brief is not 
countenanced or else, practically a repetition of the same discussion may 
have to be dwelt upon. 
