On the Management of a Stud. 61 



Thorley's patent food has frequently the same 

 effect on the milk ; there is no better food than 

 carrots. 



The groom should ingratiate himself with the 

 foal as early as possible, constantly handling him 

 until he can lift up his legs and tap the feet, first 

 with his hand, then with a stone ; because when a 

 foal is three months old, owing to standing either 

 on grass or a straw bed, his feet require to be 

 rounded at the toes and the heels kept open, 

 and this process ought to be attended to every 

 month. 



If the foal runs wild for four or five months, it 

 often becomes a dangerous struggle between him 

 and the blacksmith the first time he is pinned up 

 to attend to his feet, and many foals have been 

 seriously injured during the operation. When a 

 foal is weaned, he will fall away in condition unless 

 he has Thorley's food in addition to his mashes of 

 bran and bruised oats, or steamed barley ; after he 

 is reconciled to the maternal loss, give him oil to 

 ascertain if he has worms, the best cure for which 

 is ipecacuanha in a mash of bran, after twelve 

 hours' abstinence from food. 



When the yearlings are taken up and are inured 

 to discipline, give them three gentle doses of 

 physic at intervals of a month or six weeks, and 



