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HOW TO WINTER COLTS. 



It is a capital plan to allow colts to run out all 

 the winter, provided there is a large warm shed 

 which thev can take advantao-e of for shelter during" 

 stormy weather. The shed should be placed in a 

 convenient part of the field, and the entrance to it 

 must be both high and wide, otherwise colts are 

 likely to injure themselves in passing out and in. At 

 the same time, due regard must be paid to light, 

 ventilation, and sanitation. 



They should have a liberal allowance of oat straw 

 or meadow hay, with a feed of oats morning and 

 night. The practice of running colts out during 

 the winter has a tendency to harden their constitu- 

 tions, and the abundance of natural exercise is the 

 very life of them. 



SEPARATE YEARLINGS FROM OLDER COLTS. 



Yearlings should always be separated from older 

 colts, while their food should be more nutritious, 

 and their requirements will best be met by substitut- 

 ing clover hay for straw fodder. Not only is the 

 straw deficient in nutritive substance for young, 

 delicate flesh and bone-forming purposes, but the 

 older and stronger colts will invariably drive the 

 yearlings back. They will never get forward to eat 

 until the former retire satisfied, and if there is a 

 sweeter rip of straw than another, it will be carefully 

 selected and only the refuse left for the poor handi- 



