80 HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. VI 
require, if being worked, a generous diet, or they 
will keep very poor; others put most of what they 
eat on to their backs instead of into their foals ; and 
some few others are such bad milkers that the foal 
should be given fresh warm cow’s milk at each end 
of the day, diluted with water, and sweetened with a 
little brown sugar, to supplement his mother’s milk ; 
he should not, however, be allowed to drink his milk 
too quickly and greedily out of the bucket. 
