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bodies open, and make them eat and drink freely. When 

 the winter is spent, they should be turned into some dry 

 ground, where the grass is sweet and short, and where there 

 is good water, that they may drink at pleasure. The win- 

 terafter this, they may be kept in the stable, without any 

 farther care than that which is taken of other horses. But 

 after the first year, the mare foals and horse foals are not to 

 be kept together. There is no difficulty to know the shape 

 a foal is like to be of, for the same shape he carries at a 

 month he will carry at six years old, if he be not abused in 

 after keeping." 



' We often hear it lamented, that our breed of horses is 

 bad. But I am convinced that, as our colts are managed, if 

 we had any other breed, we should soon make it appear to 

 be as mean as our own, if not worse. The abusing of colts 

 in the first winter is the principal cause of their proving so 

 bad ; for our farmers seldom allow their weaned colts any 

 food besides hay, and that is not always of the best kind. 

 So that they seldom fail of being stinted in their growth, in 

 the first winter, to such a degree, that they never get the 

 better of it. A colt that is foaled late should not be weaned 

 till February or March, and should have oats during the 

 v.'^ole of the winter. In some countries, they allow a young 

 colt fifteen bushels. We need not grudge to feed them with 

 meal, oats, and bran, besides the best of clover hay ; for they 

 will pay for it in their growth. After the first winter, they 

 will need no extraordinary feeding till they are grown up. 

 Were the above directions observed, we should soon see au 

 improvement of our breed of horses. They would be capa- 

 ble of doing much greater service, and be likely to hold out 

 to a greater age.' — Deane. 



For farther remarks on the management of colts, and 

 training or breaking them for service, see page 67 of this 

 work. 



MANGEL-WURTZEL. ' Field Culture of the Mangel- 

 wurtzel Beet and the Sugar Beet. Soil and Preparation. 

 The soil for these roots should be a loam, inclining to clay, 

 in good tilth, well manured, and made fine to a good depth. 

 John Hare Powel, Esq., corresponding secretary to the Penn- 

 sylvania Agricultural society, in giving an account of his 

 mode of cultivating this crop, says, " My soil was not natu- 

 rally strong ; it has been gradually so much deepened as to 



