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it weaned? What care is given to the foal after the separation from 
the dam? 
12. Training the colt. — The intelligence, care, and patience used in 
training the colt largely determine whether the horse is well behaved 
and obedient or stupid or tricky. Learn all you can about the process 
by personal observation and by conversation with the best horsemen 
you know. Notice such steps as these: How to handle or hold a foal, 
when and how to train it to the halter, to drive with lines, to the uses of 
the bit, to the harness, to be hitched to a vehicle, either single or double. 
13. Oral or written composition. — This chapter offers a large variety 
of excellent subjects for compositions. A carefully prepared report or 
discussion of any of the preceding projects would be interesting, es- 
pecially the following: Breeds of Horses, Project No.1; Feeding, No. 2; 
Blanketing Horses, No. 5; The Bridle-bit, No.6; The Check-rein, No. 7; 
Defects of Horses, No. 8; Feeding the Colt, No. 11; Training the Colt, 
No. 12. 
