166 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF BROOD MARES. 



dropped a black colt and the other a sorrel filly with white 

 markings, exactly like this neighbor's mare. 



Another case of my own was in 1867, when I bred a bay 

 mare to a bay Morgan stallion without any white markings, 

 and this mare got away from a boy and ran to one of my 

 neighbors, and when I found her there a short time afterwards 

 she was with and seemed interested in a black mare with a 

 white face ; and the next year when she foaled her colt was 

 black and marked precisely like my neighbor's mare. 



One of the most wonderful instances of this kind ever known 

 was of a colt foaled in the neighborhood of Spokane Falls, 

 Washington, bearing in his left eye a perfect picture of the 

 waterfall of Spokane Falls. 



Moderate work is not only harmless but beneficial to mares 

 in foal, provided they are nor over-loaded or over-driven. It 

 is much better than keeping them tied up in a stall or turned 

 loose to run at large in yards or fields with other horses. In 

 the former case they suffer for want of exercise and in the 

 latter case they are exposed to numerous accidents. 



There is force in the suggestion that a good farmer can raise 

 a colt cheaper than can the professional breeder, as he can use 

 the mares in his farm work. Undoubtedly there is some 

 danger of injury to mares in foal, or to the foals from working 

 the mares, but with careful management this danger is slight. 



I once heard a successful farmer say that a pair of draft 

 mares owned by him annually paid the wages of the man who 

 worked them, and that they lost only about ten days at foaling 

 time. 



My practice has ever been to make reasonable use of mares 

 while in foal and while they are suckling their foals and have 

 seen ne injury to either from the practice. 



For work on the farm or road I decidedly prefer to have 

 the foals kept separately from the mares while the latter are at 

 work. Great care should be taken that the colt should not be 

 allowed to suck while the mare is too hot. 



Another advantage possessed by the farmer over the large 



