go ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 



vember, if the mare be in-foal ; ifotherwife, 

 they had better fuck all the winter, the dam 

 being high fed, and the foal fharing with her. 

 A caution, however, is neceflary to thofe who 

 feed foals as if they intended to bacon them ; 

 of this defcription was that worthy old farmer 

 of whom I have fomewhere made honourable 

 mention; he would fometimes feed a colt 

 Hone blind by the time it reached its third 

 year. 



It is of confequence to be remembered, that 

 yearlings will frequently fuck the mares, and 

 very much injure the young foals. Foals are 

 often griped by the milk, either on account of 

 its being heated by the mare's labouring, or its 

 quality being affefted by four and bad her- 

 bage. Warm mafhes of fine pollard and bran 

 are in this cafe ufeful. If neceffary, a fmall 

 quantity of fulphur, magnefia, and honey, may 

 be added. Sucklers are alfo occafionally liable 

 to be hide-bound, dull, and inapt for motion. 

 They will be fometimes coftive, then loofe, the 

 excrement fcouring from them in fmall quanti- 

 ties. It arifes on moft occafions from the 

 imperfe6l digeftion of bad milk. Balls of fine 

 rhubarb and magnefia, equal quantities, made 

 up with honey, and the fifted meal of oats, are 

 the proper remedy, and muft be ufed as necef- 

 fity requires, until the colt be weaned. From 



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