IS CARE AND TKAINING OF TROTTERS. 



lead dragging it is no trouble at all for it to learn 

 to lead. I like this way better than putting ropes 

 around their girths and hind quarters, and such 

 things as that, as I have known a good many cases 

 where colts were injured more or less.'' 



Feeding. 



After weaning, the colt should be well fed. 

 Oats is the usual food, together with timothy or 

 prairie- hay. Bran may be mixed equally with the 

 oats, although this will not be necessary if clover 

 or alfalfa are available. Some authorities con- 

 sider oats too hard for young colts to masticate 

 and give ground feed and clover hay. 



Roy Miller writes: "I take it we are all trying 

 to raise colts, fit in constitution, size and endur- 

 ance, to start in the futurities ; therefore the feed- 

 ing of the little fellow, just at this age, is a very 

 important consideration indeed. I note you men- 

 tion oats and timothy hay. I suggest two quarts 

 rolled oats, one quart bran, one pint cracked 

 screened corn, and a handful of rolled barley, to a 

 feed, three times a day, with all the straight clover 

 hay that a colt will eat, twice daily. If a breeder is 

 forced to eliminate any of the bill of fare I have 

 mentioned, I suggest he leave out anything he sees 

 'fit except the. clover hay." 



One horseman writes : "As to feeding them, I 

 give them clover hay, with a small allowance of 

 corn, and all the good gats they will clean up. I 



