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A GOOD PLAN TO FOLLOW 



When one has two brood mares and wishes to raise two colts 

 a year and still have most nse of his mares, 1 have fonnd it a good 

 plan to have one mare foal in the fall and one in early spring. 

 On almost any farm where several horses are kept it is not ditti- 

 cnlt to have the brood mare put in full time, and at the same time 

 select easy work for her. It is by no means so easy to do this 

 with two mares. By having them foal as above this is made 

 possible. Often, too, there is but one suitable box stall and 

 paddock. By this plan one will suffice. xA.s set forth above the 

 pair will mate up when one is three and a half and the other 

 four. The pair shown in Fig. 60 were so raised. The " off 

 one " and the largest is the youngest and was born in the fall. 

 When they were broken I could have sold them for $500. 



Where the mare is working, and it seems too much of a strain 

 to breed her every year, 1 have raised a colt from her one year 

 in the fall and the next in the spring, or vice versa. 



THE VALUE OF SKIM MILK FOR YOUNG COLTS 



Next to the dam's milk I have never found anything on which 

 colts grow faster than on skim milk, after they have become ac- 

 customed to it. It is sometimes difficult to get the colt to drink 

 it when on grass and its system is full of moisture, but I have 

 never had difficulty in getting the fall colt to take it. When 

 the colt has skim milk it is not so essential that the mare should 

 have an abundant milk flow. 



