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give 2 tablespoonfuls at intervals of three to six 
hours. 
It is a mistake to play with foals when they are 
very young, as they soon learn that kind of 
familiarity which breeds contempt, and pick up such 
tricks as biting, using their teeth, and striking not 
only with their hind but with their fore feet; they 
are, however, all the better for being nicely handled, 
taught to lead, and to understand the voice and 
gestures of their attendant. Foals so handled 
become very tractable, and with young horses well 
handled there is much less trouble when the time 
for breaking, mouthing, and backing arrives. I have 
had youngsters which have had a show career from 
their earliest days. Such an education has its 
dangers and disadvantages, but it has always 
resulted in their being almost broken, so docile, 
intelligent, and teachable have they become from 
constant association with man and his ways. They 
are at home in any stable ; they take their place in 
the train like any Christian; they will follow, lead, 
walk, trot, turn, “come over,” back, lift their feet, 
stand dressing, shoeing, and clipping, understand the 
words of command, and are accomplished in all 
those little details which the horse that has run wild 
till four years old learns only with great difficulty 
and at the expense of much time and patience on 
the part of his instructor. To such horses as are 
accustomed to being handled from foalhood the 
sights and noises of the road and town have no 
terror. He does not plunge at the sight or sound 
of the steam-engine, start at the whip crack, shy at 
the wheelbarrow on the roadside, or fly from the 
