MANAGEMENT OF BEOOD MAKES. 95 



ter to have the foals come in the spring. The 

 chief advantage in having a mare bred in the 

 fall is that it saves keeping her unproductive 

 for a period of six months. 



Weanlings should have snug quarters during 

 their first winter. Put them preferably two in 

 a boxstall and feed them good oats and bran — 

 one-fifth bran by weight — all they will clean up 

 nicely and come hungry to their next meal. Feed 

 them the choicest hay on the place, always free 

 from dust and mold, and feed them often — a 

 little at a time. No one can rear young horses 

 properly without grain. Mark that well. Win- 

 ter and summer they should have good grain 

 feeding. Few, however, will give it to them. I 

 have never yet been able to discover why many 

 a farmer will feed 75 bushels of corn at 40 or 50 

 cents a bushel to a steer to make him weigh say 

 1,500 lb. and then sell him for 6 cents a pound, 

 or $90 in all, and yet begrudge a single ear to a 

 colt that at the same age on the same amount of 

 grain might have been sold for $150 or more. 

 Right now the same quantity of grain that will 

 put a $90 steer on the market fat will put a 

 three-year-old colt in shape to sell for twice the 

 money — and yet few men grain their colts. 

 Keep their feet level and their toes short. 



In pasture yearlings and two-year-olds should 

 have grain according to the growth of the grass 

 and the season. Keep them growing and fat, 

 and always see well to their feet. Give them 



