158 



The HoifSK Ixdistkv i.\ A^ew YoitK State 



brood mare will do much of the fall plowing, work on the drill, 

 make a third horse on the corn harvester, or help to haul silage 

 corn if the road is hard and level. 



I think the best fall colt I ever raised came the last day of 

 August. Fig. 59 shows this colt at a year and nine months. Bv 

 selecting her work the mare put in full time through harvest. 

 She helped with the plowing, which that year was done early, 

 and she had a chance to lie idle for ten days after the colt was 

 born, before sowing and silo filling. After that she was free until 

 winter. Then the colt was four montlis old and eatine' like a horse. 



Fui. .50. .Seven-Eighths Percherox Colt, Tjorx At^cu'st ;30, 191.3 



The mare made one of a necessary team to be kept up and fed 

 grain to draw out manure and do other winter work. Very little 

 more feed kept her with plenty of milk for the colt. Separated 

 from the colt the last of March she was in as good condition for the 

 spring's work as her mate which had no colt. 



Advantage io the colt 

 The second spring when my fall colts are eighteen months old 

 they have been as large and well-developed as the spring colt at 

 two years. This means that at three and a half years a fall 



