BREEDING THE TROTTER 



THE CINDER TRACK. 



A cinder track should be built inside of the 

 main track, about three-eighths of a mile in cir- 

 cumference, with turns well thrown up. The 

 track should be from fifteen to twenty feet wide 

 and fenced on both sides. This makes a minia- 

 ture track for leading and breaking colts and jog- 

 ging in muddy weather when you cannot get onto 

 your main track. 



PADDOCKS. 



In dividing your farm and in fencing remember 

 to have plenty of paddocks from one to five acres 

 different sizes for different purposes. 



Most farms have a large pasture-field for their 

 brood-mares. I prefer dividing them into lots 

 or pasture-fields of not over ten acres. If there 

 is no shade in the pastures then trees should be 

 set out in order to afford the mares protection 

 from sun, storms and flies. In some of the brood- 

 mare pastures you will want small feeding pad- 

 docks for the colts, as mentioned in chapter five. 



To lay out the farm in the most convenient 

 manner, a road should be built through the center 

 so that the owner, his family, his friends or vis- 

 itors, can drive about the farm and see all the 

 horses without wasting a lot of time driving 

 through the fields. 



FENCING. 



As to fencing, never allow any barbed wire on 

 the place. A board fence, five feet high, is the 



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