VONTENTS ix 



PAGES 



Regularity in feeding 57 



Order of supplying food 57 



Watering the horse 59 



Feeding the Work Horse 60 



Feeding the Driving Horse . 63 



Wintering the Idle Horse 64 



Feeding the Brood Mare 65 



Feeding Mules 67 



Sample Rations for the Horse 68 



CHAPTER IV- 



The Breeding op Animals in General 70-95 



Like produces like 71 



Variation is the Basis of Improvement 72 



Variation universal among farm animals 72 



Kinds of variation 73 



Proximate Causes of Variation 75 



Environment — Climate — Food supply — Care — Crossing. 



Selection 77 



Individual merit — Pedigree — Mating. 



Heredity 83 



Inheritance of disease — Prepotency — Prolificacy or Fecundity 

 — Sterility — Relative influence of parents. 



Systems of Breeding 89 



Grading — Crossing — Line-breeding — In-breeding — Breeding 

 from the best. 



CHAPTER V 



The Breeding of Horses and Moles . ... 96-126 



Plan of Breeding 96 



Cooperative breeding 98 



Securing stallions 98 



Selecting Breeding Stock 99 



The breed and type — Uniformity — Soundness. 



The Stallion 102 



The Mare 103 



Season of the year to breed 104 



When mares should be tried 107 



Barrenness in mares 109 



A-bortion in mares 110 



Parturition time 110 



