68 BREEDING. 



owner had never been even for a moment 

 directed. It is likcwife by no means in- 

 applicable to obferve, that for fome days 

 previous to the expeded foaling of the mare, 

 Ihe (liould be kept in rather a fparing thaii 

 plentiful fituation ; to prevent a too great re- 

 pletion of the inteilines and confeqiient com- 

 prcffion upon the uterus, producing extreme 

 pain, difficulty, and delay in the delivery, 

 which might otherwife never occur. 



The mare having (as is generally the cafe) 

 been freed from her burthen without in- 

 convenience, and no circumftance arifing to 

 forbid it, let her be immediately removed to 

 a healthy and luxuriant pafture, calculated 

 to furniili not only a fu friciency of fupport 

 for her own frame, but affording a fuperflux 

 for the fubilantial and nutritious fupport of 

 her young. In this a proper difcrimina- 

 tion is abfolutely ncceffary; lank, fwampy, 

 four grafs will certainly expand the frame, 

 fubfift the dam, and contribute a flow of 

 milk for the foal, but not of that rich 

 and luxurious quality that is derived from 

 feeding upon the ^ fucculent herbage of mai- 

 den meadow, or upland grafs in high per- 

 i fedion; 



