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0G8. — Before the foal is vreaiied it should be brou<;ht in 

 with the mare occasional]}' and fed. It will soon learn to cat 

 carrots, or a little oats and bran mixed with cliaflF, Get some 

 sliced or pulped Swede turnips mixed with what he will eat, until 

 he has learned to eat them well in any shape. Give it a full feed 

 of turnips and chaff, once or twice a day, during the winter, 

 or until the grass is good, and if you want to u-row a big horse, 

 give it little or no corn until it is three years old. ^Ve know 

 that we have all the great authorities against us here too, Imt we 

 oidy say try it. 



Feed one colt on turnips and another on corn, and see which 

 grows the biggest. Like many other persons we have made many 

 a horse small by feeding him on corn that we could have made 

 big by feeding him on turnips and grass, but we know better 

 now. 



G69. — Of course we are not now speaking in this matter of 

 the colt that must be prepared to race at two years old. Turnips 

 would not do for that, nor could we hope to give any information 

 to the skilled men engaged in that work. ^Ye have had no 

 personal experience in actual racing, and can speak with no 

 authority about it, but wa do know that even the Thoroughbred 

 horse grows finer at four years old when he gets turnips. AVe 

 can quite understand that the foal that is to race at two years 

 old must have his digestive organs contracted in infancy, but we 

 have found that contracted digestive organs, and a contracted 

 frame, have a strong tendency to go together, so that we would 

 not give very concentrated food to a celt that we wanted to grow 

 large. In growing large prize cart horses, we have been very 

 successful, and we owe our success, not to corn, but to turnips 

 and good grass. 



G70. — Young horses should have some shelter, and they are 

 much better to have it without tying up. A shed in their 

 l)addock, entirely open to the South, with a deep manger all 

 along its Xorth side, in which they can get their hay, straw, 

 or roots, makes the best provision for them. A large straw or 

 hay stack will keep a good deal of driving rain off them, or even 

 a high fence, round their paddock, is a great deal better than 

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