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should be the same as that for any other foal 

 intended for exhibition. Thorough education is 

 even more essential in the case of coach and 

 Hackney foals than with the drafters, but only 

 insofar as with the mature animals of these 

 sorts. 



Foals fed for showing as described will only 

 need a let up in dropping off the milk 

 when the show season has drawn to its close, 

 which under the present system is in December 

 and therefore in cold weather. After they are 

 safely home the milk may be tapered off and 

 stopped altogether and the straight grain ration 

 persevered with, raw or cooked roots being 

 added. Carrots, sugar beets or rutabagas 

 should be fed in quantity preferably raw. The 

 grain ration should be oats and bran. It is im- 

 possible to say definitely how much the colts 

 should have. They should be given a big yard 

 to exercise in and they should have as much 

 oats and bran as they will eat up clean and come 

 hungry to the next meal. This with the roots 

 and what bright hay they will pick over will 

 keep them growing nicely and as they should 

 grow. Formerly I believed that it was neces- 

 sary to feed weanlings soft food all winter. I 

 am now convinced — and the bulletins of the ex- 

 periment stations will bear me out — that more 

 may be done in promoting growth of the right 

 sort by feeding grain dry and by giving roots 

 for succulence. Digestive troubles, moreover, 



