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will rather be benefited by moderate exercise, and by also having all the 
food and attention to which she has become habituated. But to expose 
amare during the summer months, and to stint the animal during the 
winter season, can produce nothing which shall repay the expense of 
rearing. The little progeny before it sees the light is the inhabitant of 
an unhealthy home; after birth the mother’s secretion is thin, poor, and 
watery. It neither satisfies the cravings of hunger nor can nourish a 
body into growth. Ill health in the young encourages parasites. The 
colt soon becomes the prey of the tenia. 
The young when afflicted with the above parasite may not die, but 
they are reserved for a miserable 
and a useless life. The develop- 
ments are checked. The foal grows 
up with a large head, low crest, 
tumefied abdomen, and long legs. 
If it be a male it cannot be oper- 
ated upon before the fourth year; 
even then it is cast only because 
there is no hope of further improve- 
ment. ie Gppeeie Cine ie ee ne cane wae 
long time of rearing is more than 
good; the ribs, nevertheless, are not covered with flesh; the dung is 
not well comminuted—it is friable and sometimes partially coated with 
slime; the anus projects—occa- 
sionally it is soiled by adherent 
strips of tenacious mucus, al- 
most like to membrane; the 
coat is unhealthy; the breath 
fetid; the animal may rub its 
nose violently against a wall or 
remain straining it upward for 
a considerable time; the eye 
becomes unnaturally bright ; 
the colt begins to pick and bite 
its body, often pulling off hair 
by the mouthful. 
SER 
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All this agony and the depri- ACY o PES = 
A COLT PICKING THE HAIR FROM ITS LEG BECAUSE OF 
vation of a life depends on the alia 
parsimony of man. Women 
know that the body during certain times requires extra nutriment. 
Thus delicate ladies in peculiar states are accustomed to take ‘hearty 
pulls” at porter or at stout. It is very general for physiologists to 
