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the attendant should begin to feed both foal and dam. By 
the time the foal is seven days old, he and his dam are on 
full feed. When it is available, this feed consists of one- 
third wheat bran and two-thirds rolled oats. This, with 
either timothy or Burt oats hay, makes a well-balanced 
ration for mare and foal. This feed is placed in a trough 
low enough for the foal to reach and eat with hisdam. By 
the time he is three days old, he will have learned to eat, 
and then he must be fed regularly. Whatever food is 
available for the mare and foal, it should contain a liberal 
proportion of protein. 
It may be admissible for the writer here to give a warn- 
ing, even though it may seem to be unnecessary. Both 
alfalfa and clover are dangerous if fed to breeding animals. 
This statement is made out of personal experience in breed- 
ing this horse. There is no better roughage for growing 
horses than clover hay. Alfalfa hay will do for horses if 
clover is not available, but its strong diuretic effect makes 
it necessary to watch it carefully. 
153. Distribution. — The state of Kentucky justly 
claims to have been the nursery of the two American 
breeds of horses, — the American Saddle horse and the 
Standardbred trotter, although Tennessee, and more 
recently Missouri and Illinois, have been very instrumental 
in the development of the Saddle horse. The Saddle 
horse has become distributed over most of the United 
States and parts of Canada. There are at least two very 
creditable studs in Canada and one in Mexico. Seven 
stallions have been sent to South America, two stallions 
to Porto Rico, five stallions to Cuba, one stallion to Hawaii, 
one to New Zealand and five to Japan. Three mares have 
been sent to England. It is probable that representatives 
of this breed have also reached other countries. 
