180 PURE BRED DRAFT HORSES 
crushed form. Michigan Agricultural College mentions of Ceding the 
oats whole. In ten farms—the Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm Maple- 
grove Farm, Iowa State College, Purdue University, Pentoila Stock Farm, 
Waddington Farm, Oaklawn Farm, Woodside Farm, Maple Lawn Farm, 
and Santa Anita Rancho—oats and bran form the grain mixture given to 
suckling colts. Others responding give other combinations of gram leeas. 
Several of the farms reporting on the different proportions and nature of 
components used in the grain combinations employed for feeding tne 
suckling colts are: 
farms 
Cornell University 
Chestnut Farms 
J. H. Serven and Son 
Maplegrove Farm 
Maple Lawn Farm 
Pentoila Stock Farm 
Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm 
Santa Anita Rancho 
University of Wisconsin 
White Oak Stock Farm 
Ritchie Stock Farm 
Waddington Farm 
Thos. Kiddoo Farm 
Holbert Farms 
Iowa State College 
Purdue University 
University of Minnesota 
GRAIN MIXTURE 
3 parts ground oats, 3 parts hominy, 
3 parts bran and 1 part oil meal. 
After they get started eating also 
whole oats. 
Oats, ground barley and oil meal. 
“All the oats they will eat and a lit¬ 
tle corn.” 
Equal parts of oats and bran. 
Oats and bran, half and half. 
Oats two-thirds, bran one-third. 
Oats and a little or Vz of bran. 
Usually oats (rolled) and bran 
(flake). 
4 parts oats, 1 part bran, 1 part corn. 
Bran, oats, alfalfa meal and corn. 
Oats, bran and oil meal. 
Equal parts of crushed oats and 
bran. 
Oats, a little corn and bran. 
Bran, ground oats, oil meal. 
2 parts of whole oats, 1 part of bran. 
Oats and bran, half and half. 
20 parts corn, 50 parts oats, 20 parts 
bran, and 10 parts oil meal. 
2. The Orphan Foal 
Thirteen stud farms respond on the raising of orphan foals, giving a 
brief account of the procedure. Among these are the following: 
The Chestnut Farms recommend the use of cow’s milk diluted with 
water, the whole sweetened with a little sugar. After three weeks of age 
the foals may be allowed to get as much as they will consume. But it is 
claimed that hand-raised orphans do not attain the same development as 
those that get their mother’s milk. 
At the Gregory Farm, the orphan foal is raised on cow’s milk and oat¬ 
meal at first, and later, when capable of eating grains, rolled oats are fed 
two times a day, all that they will clean up, together with hay or pasture 
for roughage. 
At the Lakewood Farm, the orphan foal is fed on cow’s milk with su¬ 
gar, by means of the bottle. For his grain feed he gets bran, a little oil 
meal and oats. 
From the University of Wisconsin comes the “prescription” that to raise 
the orphan foal the latter is placed in a foaling box stall, where he is 
taught to drink out of a bucket just as a calf. He is fed five or six times 
