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out a whole carload. There certainly is a large and sure profit in every 

 colt of good draft type, easily paying back the extra cost of the well-bred 

 mare and the very best stallion service. Mares bred in November will 

 foal the following October, after most of the farm work is over and the 

 flies are gone. But don't forget the first caution: that with the colt his 

 first year's care is practically the making of him. 



THE FIRST YEAR To get the most out of a colt take care ot mm ngni. 

 Give him a good start, for as with most animals 



it is the first year that fixes the standard. Don't wean too suddenly, as 

 this causes a setback hard to make up later. Give the weanling some grain 

 in his ration keep him growing. Keep him thriving, and remember a 

 bushel of grain charged up to his cost now will be worth many bushels 

 a few years later. Give him all he will eat up clean in the manger and 

 none over. Give plenty of exercise to harden his muscles and develop 

 appetite. 



Safe to say a colt properly cared for the first winter, then given all 

 the pasture he wants the next summer, will come through all right with 

 any sort of decent treatment the second winter and be reasonably sure 

 of good development. Keep a lookout for thrush, which means keeping 

 the stable floor clean and using Nox-i-cide Dip and Disinfectant in the 

 water when washing out the hoofs. Also look for lice and worms. Thrush, 

 lice and worms are the three pests that afflict the colts and fillies. 



WATCH THE Watch the feet all tne tune, tor tne teet ot toals tre- 

 COLT'S FEET quently need leveling. Unless the colt is kept on grass 

 or well exercised the feet are pretty sure to develop 

 unevenly, and faulty, uneven growth will affect the whole foot development 

 and make the joints and tendons liable to inflammation. Unevenness will 

 affect the upper formation also, and in time destroy the whole balance and 

 action. Sometimes one wall of the hoof is thin, so that it wears down 

 sooner. If an inner wall, then naturally that side runs down and a case 

 of knock-knee or wide-toe develops. Or if the outer wall is thinner, 

 the outside wears first and the result is pigeon toe. Careful and even 



Good fore feet 



Crooked fore feet 



trimming is the only remedy. Thus it is occasionally necessary to use 

 the rasp for symmetrical development. But always go a little cautiously 

 with the rasp, there is so much danger of abusing it. Get the colt out on 

 a level floor every month at least and see if his feet need leveling. Look at 

 each foot and see if it rests square and true, pointing straight to the front 



