CHAPTER V. 



BBEEDING AND RAISING 



I. IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT. II. THE BEST STOCK THE CHEAPEST. HI. H»» 



REDITARY TENDENCIES AND IMMATURITY TO BE GUARDED AGAINST. IV. PRINCI- 

 PLES OP TRANSMISSION. V. THE TWO METHODS, " IN-AND-IN " AND ''CROSS" BREBIH 



ING CONSIDERED. VI. TREATMENT OP THE MARE AFTER BEING SERVED, DURtNO 



PREGNANCY, ETC. VII. HOW TO KNOW WHETHER A MARE IS IN FOAL.— — VIII. HOW 



TO KNOW TIME OP FOALING. IX. ABORTION, OR SLINKING THE FOAL. X. HOW 



TO RAISE COLTS. XI. MULES. 



I. Importance of the Subject. 



No subject connected with the rearing and use of stock can be of more 

 importance to the farmer and stock-grower, the intelligent, practical bus- 

 iness man, than that of breeding. That it is every way more profitable 

 to any one who rears and trains a single colt to have that colt of the very 

 best rather than of any indifferent quality is almost too palpable to need 

 a moment's consideration. That it is possible for every man of observa- 

 tion and good judgment to improve his stock is equally obvious. There 

 is no line of work which horses are called upon to perform that has not 

 its peculiar requirements, that can be better met by some specific kind of 

 animal than by one chosen at haphazard. It is a matter, then, of the 

 plainest common sense that every one who means to rear a horse for his 

 own use should consider beforehand to what purposes he will most prob- 

 ably devote it. If it is designed for market, he needs no less to consult 

 his interests by determining what markets are accessable to him, and what 

 description of animal will be apt to find most ready sale therein, at most 

 remunerative prices. 



For the farmer who wants to bre«d and rear horses of all work, it 

 would be manifestly foolish to seek a high-priced pure-blooded race, for hii 

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