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should be increased, and grass, with oats, should 

 be added as soon as the colt is old enough to 

 eat. No ration is better for a colt than cow's 

 milk with these adjuncts. After the colt is 

 two months old skimmed milk should be sub- 

 stituted for the fi*esh cow's milk. Should there 

 be any trouble from constipation it will be well 

 to add about one pint of oil-meal per day to 

 the ration; in fact I would recommend the use 

 of oil-meal in all cases, as it furnishes a large 

 proportion of muscle and bone-forming food. 

 If the oil-meal is not obtainable flaxseed may 

 be used. A half-pint of flaxseed boiled with 

 two quarts of bran will make two good feeds 

 for a colt, and this ration may profitably be 

 alternated with the other food. Indeed, it will 

 be well in all cases where, from lack of an 

 abundance of milk of the dam, or from scanty 

 nutrition of any kind, the foal is low in flesh, 

 to early supply the deficiency with a good 

 allowance of cow's milk in addition to what it 

 gets from the dam. The effect of such a ration 

 upon the growth and condition is wonderful, 

 and in all cases where the foal is likely other- 

 wise to enter winter low in flesh I can not too 

 highly recommend its use. A quart of milk 

 morning and evening, in addition to the grain 

 ration, will be sufficient; and if it be sweetened 

 a little at first the colt will take to it all the 

 more readily. 



