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served, measures must be taken to secure the safety 

 of tlie foal, which will require that the mare shall be 

 kept in a suitable place, where some carefal person 

 can look after her safety. 



Kecurring again to the subject of putting a mare, 

 I would remark that the virgin mare, or one which 

 has not for one season had a colt, is to be put when 

 she is found in season. But the mare that has had 

 a colt will be found in season some time in the first 

 month after foaling, and if it is desired to breed her 

 again, she must be put at this time. She should be 

 put on the ninth day after foaling ; some say the 

 eighth, but I think the ninth better. Others prefer 

 the eleventh day, but it is dangerous to wait longer 

 than this, for in nine cases out of ten the mare will 

 have come her heat, and will not receive the horse 

 until too late for that season. The chief reason of 

 this is, that suckling reduces the system of the mare 

 too much to allow conception to take place, and thus 

 a year's service of the breeder is lost. I have known 

 many instances of this kind. I know only one rem- 

 edy for this, and it is too barbarous to be practiced, 

 and any one who would resort to it should be pun- 

 ished by law. After putting a mare, the days for 

 trial are the ninth after service, the seventh after 

 this, and the fifth after this again, making twenty- 

 one days. Some return again, commencing with 

 the ninth day, and follow up as before, making forty- 

 two days. But I insist that, as twenty-one days is 



