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 SECTION LX. 



0/ raifing Foals for Ufe in the heft Manner, — 

 Of caftrating Foals and other /inimalsi ■ 



IN raifing foals for ufe, great care mud be 

 taken not to flop tlieir growth by itarving the 

 mares, or by ftinting theoi of a fufficient quan- 

 tity of food ; for keeping young animals in a 

 poor half-ftarved condition can never anfwer 

 any good purpofe to the breeder. The trouble 

 of getting a dinted foal fat is the lead of the 

 inconveniences attending the poor keeping. 

 A horfe is intended for hard labour, and is, 

 when grov/n, codly in maintaining : his condi- 

 tution therefore diould be well taken care of 

 when young, by giving every pofTible aflidance 

 to nature. 



It is a midaken notion of fome whoperfid in 

 working the mares when the foals. fuck them *, 

 for if a foal will not pay for the fupport of its 

 mother, it is not worth breeding. Foals diould 

 fuck till about the beginning of September. — 

 When fird weaned, they mud be kept in a 

 convenient roomy houfe, with a low rack and 

 manger for hay and oats. The hay mud be 



very 



