BROOD MARES. ST 



BROOD MARES. 



Great care and attention should be paid to 

 brood mares, particularly three or four weeks 

 before foaling. She should be worked up to the 

 day of foalingj being very careful not to over- 

 work or exert her too much; light and moder- 

 ate work is an advantage to the animal with 

 foal. She should be fed on a little flax seed 

 meal, or the whole seed if the meal cannot be 

 obtained, twice a week at least six or eight 

 weeks before foaling, and should never fail to 

 to turn out to grass of a night for several 

 weeks previous to foaling. Should be fed on 

 bran mash through the winter, and up to the 

 time of foaling, vrhich Y>'ill be found very ad- 

 vantageous to both mare and colt. There is 

 nothing so refreshing as a bran mash with a 

 little salt in it, adding a reasonable quantity of 

 corn and oats. If this course and caution is 

 taken jiou will not loose one mare out of a hun- 

 dred, and perhaps not one out of a thousand. 



