Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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Clydesdale stallion, Gallant Sturdy 13873, owned by F. L. Crosby, Mexico, Mo. 



course this is an exceptional mare, but any good big grade Clydes- 

 dale mare ought to produce a colt, either horse or mule, that will 

 sell for not less than $100 at weaning time, but if the foal is a 

 filly colt it should be kept on the farm and not sold at all. 



My advice to breeders would be to sell the horse colts at any 

 time they have a good buyer, from weaning time up to four years 

 old, but when they get a good mare colt don't sell her until she 

 has been tried out as a brood mare, for good brood mares are away 

 too scarce in Missouri, and you cannot buy the best in other states 

 for the reason that the best are not for sale. 



When the foal is about two months old it will be eating oats 

 out of the trough with its dam, but after it has learned to eat well 

 it is a good plan to feed it in a separate box by the side of the 

 mother, and when 41/2 to 5 months old it is ready to wean. Keep 

 on feeding it oats and let it have grass as long in the fall as 

 possible, then feed it all the clover or cowpea hay it will eat, to- 

 gether with shelled oats and an ear or two of corn, per day until 

 grass comes the next spring, then gradually take away the grain 

 and let the colt run on good pasture in which there is always a 



