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attention, and the attendant must then be guided by 

 the dropping of the quarters, which usually takes 

 place about two days before foaling; but, as a rule^ 

 the udder begins to show about a fortnight before 

 foaling, and in some cases three weeks before. The 

 udder continues to increase until wax appears ; this is a 

 yellow substance which remains on the fronts of the 

 teats about a day, and when it drops off, milk begins to 

 show, and continues dropping away; and, as a rule, 

 the mare will foal within ten hours of the change from 

 wax to milk ; in some cases a mare will w^ax, and the 

 wax drop off, without being followed by milk ; she may 

 then go some time before waxing again — perhaps a 

 fortnight, or three weeks in some cases. When the 

 milk once appears, the mare then wants looking to 

 every hour or so, and the next symptom is, the mare 

 will begin to look uneasy, and smell about ; she 

 may then be expected to foal at any time, and should 

 not be left more than ten minutes or a quarter of an 

 hour. It is of great importance that the mare should 

 be accustomed to one attendant for a few days before 

 foaling, so that she may not be nervous at his coming 

 in and out, and great caution should be observed at 

 this time by the attendant, that he should come in 

 very cautiously, in case the mare should be down 

 foaling, in which case she might get frightened, and 

 jump up. It is advisable to let a mare foal in a place 

 with as much room as possible; and in cases, when 



