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to them high enough so the foals may go under 

 them, but too low for the mares to crawl beneath 

 them. The foals will soon learn the trick. The 

 mares should be fed elsewhere. 



If the mares are not provided with a shed as 

 described they should be taken up and housed 

 during the hot days of flytime and turned afield 

 again at night. They should have bright hay to 

 eat in addition to their grain during the day 

 time and as the pasture grows more scanty in 

 the fall their rations should be increased. Pas- 

 turage may be supplemented by green corn- 

 stalks, if only the latter are introduced into the 

 diet gradually and the young ears may go with 

 the stalks for a time. Then tear the ears off 

 the most of the stalks. Let the foals have all 

 the grain they want all the time. This with shel- 

 ter in which to gain surcease from the troubling 

 of the flies will keep them growing as they 

 should. I do not know of anything that looks 

 more like willful inhumanity of the most atro- 

 cious character than a bunch of mares and colts 

 standing in the fence corner of some bare, brown 

 field in the broiling sun without anything to eat, 

 tortured by the pestilential flies and stamping 

 their feet to pieces in their efforts to rid them- 

 'selves of their pestiferous winged enemies. One 

 of the most inhuman torture schemes of the 

 most degraded of the human race is to tie a 

 captive enemy to a stake in the sun and let the 

 flies have full swing at him. Headhunting is a 



