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the yearling shows have been made the process 

 of wintering is much the same as before. The 

 youngsters need about all the grain they will 

 eat under any circumstances and the feeder can 

 alone determine what their rations should be. 



Two-year-old colts brought to their second 

 season this way should have box stalls and pad- 

 docks attached, each colt a stall and a paddock 

 to himself. I have seen valuable colts run in 

 bunches as two-year-olds, but it is a poor prac- 

 tice. They wrestle and fight and the liability 

 to accident and consequent blemish is great. Of 

 course if it is desired to run the colts along 

 on little or no grain perhaps they will get along 

 nicely enough together in large lots, but I do 

 not think that is the way to rear pure-bred colts. 

 Keep the youngsters schooled in the ways of the 

 arena. 



This is as good a place to say it as any other : 

 It is impossible to explain didactically the art 

 of feeding young horses for show purposes. It 

 is an art and one that may be learned only by 

 experience. It would be foolish to try to set 

 down any positive rules for the feeding of 

 young horses intended for the show ring. They 

 will stand a lot of feeding and they must have 

 it, but as every horse is different in somq par- 

 ticular from the next one only a very general 

 foundation can be laid down. On this the feeder 

 must build for himself, but he must build with 



