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said to possess a nervous temperament, and do not maintain a 
hardy constitution or condition, and suffer more than others from 
either local or general disorder. There is another temperament of 
quite an opposite character, called the sanguineous, which denotes 
an animal with a full and plump muscular form; a powerful exter¬ 
nal conformation, and full of energy; willing, docile, enduring in 
work, and maintaining condition, and when attacked with disease 
soonest recovered. There is not the least doubt that animals have 
in common, or are susceptible of, distinct feelings or emotions, and 
that their actions are influenced by temperament. To procure ani¬ 
mals for breeding without some defect would be difficult; the man 
who therefore breeds, it matters not from what animal, should 
always keep in mind, “like begets like,” and that this is as appli¬ 
cable to man as to beast. Some authors and essayists on the horse 
consider the breed of the farm-horse but little degenerated; so 
much the more are our energies required to prevent its further 
degeneracy, by endeavouring to annihilate all those faults capable 
of being transmitted to the offspring, full well knowing we have to 
contend also with other common foes, Locality, Climate, and Soil, 
which are the principal agents in perpetuating degeneracy in ani¬ 
mals not adapted or suited to the same. Breed, therefore, from ani¬ 
mals best adapted to your locality, and capable of maintaining a 
good and sound constitution. 
Gestation .—The management of the mare during conception 
does not receive much attention from the farmer; some even work 
her on until the time of foaling is just arrived. Taking it as an 
universal custom, very few evils result from it : to countenance 
such proceedings is not commendable, more especially if the work 
be heavy or exhausting. Nothing conduces more to the well-doing 
of the mare in keeping her healthy than moderate work on the 
farm : it induces vigour, and keeps the secretions, so beneficial to 
the growth of the foetus, normal. The plan is a bad one of turning 
the breeding mare into a paddock or small inclosure; sufficient 
exercise is not taken, it renders her inactive and lazy, and, if fed 
even moderately, she accumulates fat, becomes enervated and 
weak, and her sanguineous system feeble : the growth of the foetus 
will also suffer. Exercise unlimited, or fair work with good feed¬ 
ing, are compatible with the support of the stamina of the mare and 
growth of the foetal colt. To obtain the full benefit of nutritious and 
succulent grasses, May is the month usually preferred for putting 
the cart-mare to the stallion; the succeeding spring will then have 
somewhat advanced by the time the mare foals. Should the spring 
perchance be backward, the mare should have, as an auxiliary, 
eight or ten pounds of oats mixed with a little chaff and bran per 
diem. Nothing is more instrumental in furnishing the mare with 
