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lead dragging- it is no trouble at all for it to learn 

 to lead. I like this way better than putting ropes 

 around their girths and hind quarters, and such 

 things as that, as I have known a good many cases 

 where colts were injured more or less.'" 



Feeding. 



After weaning, the colt should be well fed. 

 Oats is the usual food, together with timothy or 

 prairie hay. Bran may be mixed equally with the 

 oats, although this will not be necessary if clover 

 or alfalfa are available. Some authorities con- 

 sider oats too hard for young colts to masticate 

 and give ground feed and clover hay. 



Roy Miller writes: "I take it we are all trying 

 to raise colts, fit in constitution, size and endur- 

 ance, to start in the futurities ; therefore the feed- 

 ing of the little fellow, just at this age, is a very 

 important consideration indeed. I note you men- 

 tion oats and timothy hay. I suggest two quarts 

 rolled oats, one quart bran, one pint cracked 

 screened corn, and a handful of rolled barley, to a 

 feed, three times a day, with all the straight clover 

 hay that a colt will eat, twice daily. If a breeder is 

 forced to eliminate any of the bill of fare I have 

 mentioned, I suggest he leave out anything he sees 

 fit except the clover hay." 



One horseman writes: "As to feeding them, I 

 give them clover hay, with a small allowance of 

 corn, and all the good oats they will clean up. I 



