72 BREEDING. 



plaint is removed, and nature perfecftly re- 

 llored. 



Some mares, whether from a rigidity of the 

 veflels in not having their firft foals till an 

 advanced age, flight colds that obftrud: the 

 fecretionSi or whatever caufe unaffigned, are 

 very deficient in a ncceffary flow of milk, by 

 which means the foal is deprived of perhaps 

 half the fuftcnance nccefiary for his fupport 

 and expccSted improvement : this is a matter 

 well w^orthy minute infpeclion for the firft 

 three or four days after foaling, by which 

 time the food fhould be perfedily ailimilated, 

 the ladleals expanded, and an ample fecre- 

 tion furniflicd for the full feed of the foal. 

 This not being the cafe, fuch deficiency 

 Ihould be very early difcovercd, and as ea- 

 gerly affifted when known. 



The richefl and moil luxuriant pafture 

 that can be obtained, with good foft water 

 at will, is the firft and beft natural ftep to 

 remove fuch obftrucSion in its infancy ; tbat^ 

 upon obfcrvation, not fucceeding in the de- 

 fired degree, and the colt becoming percep- 

 tibly 



