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Abdallah Avas got by tlie old horse when he was two years old ; Volunteer was 

 sired when he was four years old; Edward Everett when he was five; Dexter 

 when he was eight ; Bruno when he was eleven ; Sentinel when twelve ; Jay 

 Gould when fourteen ; Gazelle, Nettie, and Aberdeen when sixteen ; and 

 Startle when seventeen. — Turf Jonrtial. 



STALLIONS. 



It is stated in the sketch of Golddust that his sire, Vermont Morgan, was 

 impotent for more than a year after being brought from Vermont to Illinois. 

 I had a stallion with a similar experience. I bought him at St. Catherines, 

 in Canada, as a five-year-old. The previous year I was assured he produced 

 ninety-seven colts — a statement which I regarded as doubtful, but he never 

 produced one after that. He was entirely impotent for two years, and died 

 before he was restored. I have been informed that such cases have de- 

 creased, and that the best remedy is plenty of work and grass, and entire 

 withdrawal from all offers of stud service. 



FEEDING. 



The horse is kept for his muscle, and his food must be such as to develop 

 the frame and muscular system. The feeder must have a clear idea of the 

 purpose for which an animal is reared, and a comprehension of the office 

 performed by the food. The food should present the precise elements in the 

 proper proportion required for the uses of the animal. Animals kept for their 

 flesh as food require a larger proportion of carbonaceous elements than those 

 valuable only for muscle. Indian corn is the great crop of the "West, and is 

 the best type of fattening food, and has abundant use in the production of 

 beet, mutton and pork. It may also properly form a part of the food of horses, 

 and even of colts, but to the latter must be fed very sparingly. Bear in mind, 

 it is chiefly the muscle and the finest quality of springy bone that requires 

 development in the 



COLT. 



Aswe are now studying the proper development of the colt, let us see what 

 Nature provides for its early growth. It will be seen from the analysis of the 

 mare's milk, that the casein, or muscle-forming element, is 3.40 per cent., 

 butter 2.50, milk sugar 3.53, ash .53 per cent., and water 90.05 per cent. The 

 mare's milk contains a larger per centage of water than cow's milk, but the 

 relative proportion of the food elements is nearly the same. There is 9.95 per 

 cent, of dry matter (food) in mare's milk, and of this the food of respiration 

 and fat production (butter and milk sugar) amount to 6.03 per cent., so the 

 casein amounts to 3.40 per cent., or more than one-third of the whole. This 

 gives a little more than one of nitrogenous to two of carbonaceous elements. 

 The colt thus receives food, in the mother's milk, in the proportion of one of 

 nitrogenous (muscle-forming) to 1.93 of carbonaceous elements. This tells us 

 in the strongest possible language, that the colt requires food rich in muscle- 

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