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it is consolatory to know that under such circumstances 

 foals have been successfully brought up by hand. Cade 

 and Milksop, both excellent racers, were thus reared ; and 

 either cows' milk, or that of asses, may be employed for 

 the purpose. Should that of cows be found to become 

 sour, it should be boiled ; or it may be medicated by having 

 sugar and starch added to it. The udder of the mare does 

 not generally become distended with milk until the fourth 

 day ; in which state it continues to yield its secretion until 

 the nippers of the young one enable it to browse the more 

 tender grass ; when its secretory store dries up, and the bag 

 resumes its ordinary dimensions, 



THE COLT, AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HLS ORGANIZATION. 



Unlike the young of many other animals, the colt is not 

 born helpless ; but, on the contrary, its aptitude and its 

 organs for locomotion are already developed, and it is 

 capable of performing many of the common phenomena of 

 life with dexterity and ease ; to enable it to do which, its 

 organization exhibits some specialities worthy of notice. 



At what time do the testicles first appear in the colt? — 

 There are great anomalies in the scrotal lodgement of the 

 testicles. However, they are seldom, if ever, found at the 

 bottom of the scrotum, until eleven or twelve months have 

 expired ; but yet high-breeding, and particularly high-feed- 

 ing, will hasten the descent five or six weeks, in the same 

 manner that it produces other marks of early development. 

 But it is equally certain that they do make a partial appear- 

 ance in the upper portions of the scrotal bag within a few days 

 after foaling, and in some cases the animal is even foaled with 

 them already there. From that position they are, by the in- 

 creasing strength of the cremaster muscle, again drawn up, 

 sometimes only to the edge of the ring, but more often to 

 lodge themselves between the inner and outer rings, where 

 they remain three or four months. 



The effect which the presence of the testicles has on the 

 masculine character is, evidently, a portion of our present 

 physiological inquiry. The permanent descent of the tes- 

 ticles has a great effect on the exterior form ; it has a cor- 

 responding one also on the character : it is, however, prin- 



