BREEDING THE TROTTER 



forth in chapter five), or about thirty-five bushels 

 for the season. This will require, in New York 

 State, seven-tenths of an acre of land. 



The straw from this land will provide enough 

 bedding for your mare during the winter if your 

 men are not wasteful. 



Sooner or later the colts will come on and you 

 will need more land. We will suppose that you 

 keep all the colts until they are two years old. 

 This will give you the pleasure of breaking and 

 driving them and developing their speed if they 

 have any. In the long run you will make a larger 

 net profit selling your colts as two-year-olds than 

 at any other age. 



Now, to determine how much land will be 

 needed to support the colts. The weanlings 

 should have eight pounds of hay per day during 

 the winter months or seven hundred pounds for 

 the season. One quarter of an acre of land will 

 keep the weanling in hay every season. When 

 the yearlings come on they will eat almost as 

 much hay as aged horses. The weanling will eat 

 seven quarts of oats per day or forty bushels dur- 

 ing the winter. Four-fifths of an acre of ground 

 will raise enough oats for the weanling. The 

 yearlings will eat the same amount during the 

 breaking season and following winter. One and 

 three-fifths acres will raise the oats needed for 

 this purpose. After your oldest foals are year- 

 lings, in order to be prepared to support your 

 mare, her weanling and her yearling up to the 

 spring of its two-year-old form, you must have 



