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or January before they will be two years of age, 

 then put them in boxstalls and give plenty of clean 

 straw, alfalfa, oats, bran and some chop feed wet, 

 three times each day. The barn man should take 

 them out of their stalls every morning and clean 

 them well, even their hoofs. Arrange so that they 

 have a paddock to run in at least every other day. 

 ' ' Teach the colt to stand when out of the stall, and 

 teach him to move. Let the barn man start with 

 him, and follow, not with a whip, but with a corn- 

 shuck to make a shuffling noise, something new to 

 the oolt. After a few times he will be moving like 

 a coacher when he hears the shuffling of the shuck, 

 and will never know how he learned it. Whips in 

 the showring have lost more blue ribbons for horses 

 than they ever won." 



Dan Augstin's Story. — Thirty years of Percheron 

 breeding are thus recalled by Mr. Augstin: 



"Ever since I can remember I have been inter- 

 ested in Percherons. When only a lad I used to go 

 over to the old Dillon place to 'talk horse' every 

 Sunday that mother would let me. That was a great 

 treat to me, as fine draft horses were very scarce at 

 that time. I learned a great deal in this way about 

 the breeding and showyard records of these good 

 horses. I made the vow then that if I ever got to 

 be a man I too would own some Percherons. 



"When I first started farming for myself I had 

 only 80 acres of land and was not able to put my 

 money in purebred Percherons. I did the next best 

 thing and purchased high-class grade mares. These 

 were bred to the best Percheron stallions in the 

 community. My grade colts from such sires as old 

 Powerful and Kellermann developed into massive, 

 big horses of the right type. I made a strenuous 

 effort each year to have every mare have a foal, and 



