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Feeds and Feeding. 



427. Weight of trotting foals at birth. — At Allen farm, Pitts- 

 field, Mass., Mestoni recorded the weiglits of foals at birth as 

 Buminarized in the following table: 



WeigM of trotting -bred foals at birth and other data relating (hereto — 

 Meston, AUen Farm. 



428. Increase in weight of foals. — Meston ^ recorded the in- 

 crease in weight of trotting-bred foala up to fonr months, with the 

 results shown in the following table: 



Growth of smuMing trotting-bred foals up to four months - 



Allen Farm. 



■Meston, 



* Doubtful. 



' Country Gentleman, 1894, pp. 636-7. 

 ' Loc. cit. 



