APRIL. 



now is worth two by-and-by. The directions laid 

 down for last month, on that head, are to be fol- 

 lowed still. 



MARES FOALING, 



Mares should have the horse so as to foal as 

 nearly as may be~in this month : the end of which, 

 or the beginning of May, is the most advantageous 

 'time. They go 12 lunar or 11 calendar months. 

 When expected to foal, a mare should be shut into 

 a small paddock or pasture, so perfectly safe re- 

 specting fences, and freedom from dangerous holes 

 and ponds and ditches, that the foal may be free 

 from the possibility of losing its life by accidents 

 touching all local circumstances that may hazard 

 it ; for want of such a pasture, into a clear out- 

 house or stable, but not haltered to any thing. If 

 she betrays any signs of illness she should be kept 

 in such a house till well, and have warm water 

 with bran, and two mashes a day of oats, bran, 

 and malt, in equal quantities, with the best of 

 hay in her rack. If well, she ur.d her foal should 

 be turned into good sound pasture, where likely to 

 be quiet. 



FEED TEAMS ON CARROTS. 

 Throughout this month the teams should depend 

 -on carrots, which are now in that dry withered 

 state, in which their use is incomparably valuable. 

 .They are more hearty and nourishing to horses 

 .than any other food. Each horse may have two 



bushels 



