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or corn and cob meal. If the mare's milk is too 

 rich her rations should be restricted and some of 

 her milk drawn by the groom. 



Weanlings are usually fed on oats, but if they 

 are troubled from teething steamed crushed oats 

 or barley, thickened with bran, should be used 

 once a day, preferably at night. A fair daily al- 

 lowance of grain for a weanling is from 2 to 3 

 pounds : from one to two years, 4 to 5 pounds ; 

 from two to three years. 7 to 8 pounds. 



Asa Danforth says: "My plan has been to 

 feed a growing colt all the oats it will eat when 

 supplemented with bran and clover. I would dis- 

 like to raise a trotting colt without clover, or its 

 first cousin, alfalfa, but they must be absolutely 

 free of dust." 



If it is necessary to rear a foal artificially and 

 if it has never received any of its dam's milk, it 

 should first have a dose of castor oil. Cow's milk 

 should be fed to the colt but it should be diluted 

 with one fourth of its volume of water and some 

 sugar added. The sugar used should be at the 

 proportion of i pound of sugar to 100 pounds of 

 the diluted milk. Gruels made from boiled beans 

 or peas passed through a sieve, or from oil meal 

 or shorts boiled to a jelly, are excellent for orphan 

 colts. 



Horses should be fed regularly and, on account 

 of small stomachs, at least three times a day ; some 

 horsemen feed four times. The bulk of roughage 



