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J. B. JOELS STUD METHODS. A recent number of the Hloodstock Hreeders He-view, miblished in ICugland, contains an interesting account of J. 15. Joels Childwickbiiry Stud, which is located within a forty-live minutes train journey of I.oh. Ion. The stud xvas founded in 1SSS by the late Sir Hluudcll -Maple, and the estate extends to !,mi acres, cut up into paddocks of various sizes, xvh.ch are soxvn xvith a mixture of nineteen different grasses. Only stable manure is used in the paddocks, never chalk, lime or artitieial manure. The magazim savs Mr. Joel is a linn beliexer in fresh air for the "inhabitants of his stud. The stallions are never exercised like in other studs, but run free in enormous paddocks, enclosed with wooden walls, so high that they cannot see into the neighboring paddocks. There they are kept quite free the whole day. often in company xvith grazing cattle. Jf the xveather is xvet and the soil muddy, thep present a rare sight for the non-expert, because they look more like piss than horses. Recently one 4f the biggest horse dealers in London visited the .stud, and he, being accustomed to well groomed horses only, and not knowing that the niud-cox-cred fellow standing in front of him x-as Sunstar, which just had enjoyed a roll in the mud, declared he would not give a fiver" for such "a dirty beast." Even in the breeding season the stallions are kept in these open exercise paddocks. The consequence is the Childxvickbury stallions alxvays enjoy a rjhust state of health and vigor. The other horses at the stud are also kept in the open, except xvhen the xveather is xvet and cold. The boxes at the stud total 290. Hehiud the box of each stallion is a xxalled-in yard, where the mares are served. The foals are xveaned in the last week in August, and the lillles are then kept together in one paddock and the colts in another. Mr. Joel not holding xvith the idea that each youngster should have a paddock to Itself for fear it might sustain injurv xvhen playing xvith its mates. There are no xvooden railings in the paddocks at I Childxvickbury. Iron railings only are used. They are four reet seven inches high, have five Hat iron rails 4ine inch by one-quarter inches, round iron top rails of two and three-quarter inches circumference, ami are painted xvhite. Danger from splinters is avoided, and though some breeders will not stand the iron railings on the score that the horses lo not see them xvhen running about and sustain injury by running into them, such has not been the experience at Childwickbiiry. The water supply is obtained from a xx-ell on the estate. It is first jiumped into a big filter, and thence to a reservoir, from which it is conducted by nipes all oxer the .Mud farm. Irince Palatine. Sunstar and Suulloxvcr II. are the sires noxv located at ChihlxxicUbury, and the mares total 42.
