16S MODERN FAKRIER. 



dangerously. It sometimes happens that the stallion 

 does not complete the work of generation, coming 

 from the mare without making any injection ; it 

 should therefore be attentively observed, whether, 

 in the last moments of tl^ie copulation the dock of 

 the stallion's tail has a vibrating motion ; for such a 

 motion always accompanies the emission of the se- 

 minal lymph. If he has performed the act, he must 

 on no consideration be suffered to repeat it, but be 

 led away directly to the stable, and there kept two 

 days. For however able a good stallion may be of 

 covering every day during the three months, it is 

 much better to let him be led to a mare only every 

 other day : his produce w^ill be greater, and he him- 

 self less exhausted. During the first seven days, let 

 four different mares be successively brought to him, 

 and the ninth day let the first be again brought, and 

 so successively while they continue in heat ; but as 

 soon as the heat of any one is over, a fresh mare is 

 to be put in her place, and covered in her turn 

 every nine days ; and as several retain even at the 

 first, second, or third time, it is computed that a 

 stallion, by such management, may, during the 

 three months, cover fifteen or eighteen mares, and 

 beget ten or tw^elve colts. 



' These animals have a very large quantity of the 

 seminal lymph ; so that a considerable portion of it 

 is shed during the emission. In the mares likewise 

 is an emission, or rather distillation of the seminal 

 lymph, during the whole time they are horsing; 

 ejecting a viscid whitish lymp, called the heats, 

 which ceases on conception. The ejection of this 

 liquor is the most certain sign of the mare's heat : 

 but it is also known by the inflation of the low^er 

 part of the vulva, by her frequent neighings, and 

 attempts to get to the horses. 



Though the usual season for the heat of mares be 

 from the beginning of April to the end of June, yet 

 it is not uncommon to find some among a large 



