BREEDING THE TROTTER 



spring water if possible, in all lots and paddocks. 

 The troughs should be eight to twelve feet long 

 and about sixteen inches deep. A large trough 

 is better than a small one, because it does not 

 become heated so quickly in summer. Pine 

 wood makes the best troughs. The tops should 

 be covered with tin, zinc, or galvanized iron, so 

 that the horses will not eat the wood. The troughs 

 should be well painted. They will look neater 

 and last longer. 



BROOD-MARE SHEDS. 



We now come to the brood-mare barn. No 

 matter how much money I might have, and even 

 if able to build an expensive brood-mare barn, I 

 would build sheds and winter the mares that way. 

 With this arrangement the mare gets out at all 

 times during the winter and takes her natural 

 exercise. On account of this exercise she will 

 have stronger and straighter foals than otherwise 

 and the mare is less liable to be injured as she 

 sometimes is when passing through stall doors. 

 During the last fifteen years at Village Farm the 

 mares were wintered in sheds and we were very 

 successful with them. One spring there were 

 one hundred and two brood-mares on the farm, 

 many of them outside mares left to be wintered. 

 Out of this number one hundred and one had 

 foals. This success was in no small degree due 

 to the care they received at the hands of Michael 

 and Joseph Fisher, now of Snydersville, N. Y. 

 When mares are kept in sheds it makes less work 



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