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grains, vegetables, and plants ; they flourisli 

 better by transplanting the seed to a different 

 soil. 



I\Iares retain the foal eleven months and a 

 few days, more or less, according to their age ; 

 they therefore should have the horse some time 

 in the m.onth of May, or early in June; as the 

 season in v/hich she vv^ill foal will better agree 

 with the tender age of her offspring. She will 

 have plenty of milk, and the foal, which is 

 naturally short necked, will more easily reach 

 the tops of the grass, which he begins to eat at 

 six weeks or tv/o months old, and which con- 

 tributes much to its health and vigour. 



After foals are weaned, which some assert 

 should be at the beginning of winter, and 

 others, with more reason, not till the foiiovv-ing 

 spring, they should have fresh hay and a little 

 sheaf corn mixed well together, to prevent their 

 cropping the heads only, and thus obliging 

 them to eat the straw at the same time. This 

 is much better than threshed oats. When the 

 grass is become sufEciently nourishing, no other 

 food will be necessary, unless the pasture be 

 bare •, which ought not to be the case, as it 

 keeps them too long on their legs, causes their 

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