80 BREEDING. 



palpable points, defects, or disqualifications 

 against me in either horse or inare ; and I 

 have not the least shadow of doubt remain- 

 ing, but those who confidently make the ex- 

 periment will have sufficient reason to repent 

 the hazard of the undertaking. 



Returning now to th.e successful foaling^ 

 of the brood mare, properly adapted to a 

 continuation of breeding, we revert to the 

 accustomed method of soon taking her again 

 to horse: upon which a variety of opinions 

 have been transmitted from sire to son, and 

 re-echoed from one generation to another. 

 It has been the invariable practice with some, 

 to offer the maie a horse on the fourth day 

 after foaling, to insure " the greater chance 

 of immediate conception ;" w^ith others, " to 

 promote an increased flow of milk ;'* and an 

 established opinion, " that the horse will be 

 more readily taken at that time than at any 

 future part of the season." 



These are opinions in themselves so per- 

 fectly inotlensive, and of so little conse- 

 quence, that they require not the least ani- 



